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Reason and Emotion : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory /
This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral hilosophy -- including several published here for the first time -- by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issue...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: SOCRATES AND PLATO: Notes on Xenophon's Socrates
- Socrates and Plato in Plato's Gorgias
- The unity of virtue
- Plato's theory of human motivation
- The psychology of justice in Plato
- Plato's theory of human good in the Philebus
- Plato's statesman and politics
- Appendix: Expertises subordinate to statesmanship
- PART II: ARISTOTLE: The Magna Moralia and Aristotle's moral philosophy
- Contemplation and happiness: a reconsideration
- Some remarks on Aristotle's moral psychology
- Reason, moral virtue, and moral value
- Aristotle on the authority of "Appearances"
- Aristotle on the goods of fortune
- Aristotle on the forms of friendship
- Frindship and the good in Aristotle
- Political animals and civic friendship
- Justice and rights in Aristotle's Politics
- Ethical-political theory in Aristotle's Rhetoric
- An Aristotelian theory of emotions
- PART III: HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY: Eudaimonism, the appeal to nature, and "moral duty" in Stoicism
- Posidonius on emotions
- Pleasure and desire in Epicurus
- Greek philosophers on euthanasia and suicide.