Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781108420587 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

Georgia Tsouni

Opis

Offers a re-appraisal of the sources and philosophical significance of Peripatetic ethics as interpreted and appropriated by Antiochus of Ascalon.

Recenzje

'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikeiōsis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiōsis; 6. Oikeiōsis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikeiōsis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.