Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780199226399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str.

C. C. W. Taylor

Opis

C.C.W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists (including the Epicureans), showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists.
Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.

Recenzje

This is a very fine volume... this collection of papers will be welcomed by all who work in ancient philosophy or are interested in the philosophical issues in focus in Taylor's negotiation of the terrain.