Virtue and Knowledge: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781138697393 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 250 str.

William J. Prior

Opis

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers.

Spis treści

1. Before Philosophy: Some Literary Portraits of Virtue 2. The Sophists and Socrates 3. Plato’s Moral Philosophy: The Republic 4. Aristotle’s Moral Philosophy: Nicomachean Ethics 5. Epicureanism and Stoicism

O autorze

William J. Prior