Ancient Ethics and the Natural World

Herausgeber: Sattler, Barbara M; Coope, Ursula

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. It will be of interest to academics and students in philosophy and classics, and more generally to anyone intrigued by novel ideas about the relation between ethics and nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781108813723
• ISBN-10: 1108813720
• Artikelnr.: 68672040

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ursula Coope and Barbara Sattler; Part I. Humans in nature:
nature and law, humans and natural catastrophes: 1. Legislating in
accordance with nature in Plato's Laws Alex Long; 2. Plato's astronomy and
moral history in the Timaeus Barbara Sattler: 3. Natural catastrophe in
Greek and Roman Philosophy A. A. Long; Part II. Humans as godlike, gods as
human-like: Presocratics and Platonists: 4. Anthropomorphism and epistemic
anthropo-philautia: the early critiques by Xenophanes and Heraclitus
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos; 5. Nature and divinity in the notion of
godlikeness Li Fan; Part III.Emotions, reason, and the natural world
(Aristotle); 6. Human and animal emotions in Aristotle Jamie Dow; 7.
Reasonable and unreasonable affections and human nature Dorothea Frede;
Part IV. Action and the natural world (Aristotle): 8. Chains that do not
bind: causation and necessity in Aristotle Thomas Tuozzo; 9. Aristotle on
nature, deliberation and purposiveness Ursula Coope; Part V. The
naturalness of goodness; 10. Eudoxus's hedonism Joachim Aufderheide; 11.
Aristotle and Socrates in the eudemian ethics on the naturalness of
goodness Christopher Rowe.