Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge: Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin

ISBN-13: 9780198817277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

David O. Brink; Susan Sauve Meyer; Christopher Shields

Opis

Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin in the history of philosophy. They discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond.

Recenzje

'The editors have produced an excellent and fitting volume to honor the careers of two of the most distinguished philosophical historians alive today.

O autorze

David O. Brink is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, He is the author of Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (1989), Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green (2003), and Mill's Progessive Principles (2013). Susan Sauvé Meyer is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Aristotle on Moral Responsibility (1993, 2011), Ancient Ethics (2008), and a translation of Books 1 and 2 of Plato's Laws, with commentary. Christopher Shields is Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (1999) and Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Commentary (2016).