Early Greek Ethics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wolfsdorf, David Conan

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Produktbeschreibung

Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological, and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens, and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi, and On Law and Justice. In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife, and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 751
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191076411
• Artikelnr.: 60349211

Autorenporträt

David Conan Wolfsdorf is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously he taught at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He is the author of On Goodness (Oxford, 2019), Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Cambridge, 2012), and Trials of Reason (Oxford, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction * INDIVIDUALS AND TEXTS * 1: Johan C. Thom: The Pythagorean Acusmata * 2: Shaul Tor: Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance * 3: Mark A. Johnstone: On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought * 4: John Palmer: Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles * 5: Tazuko A. van Berkel: The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement * 6: Kurt Lampe: The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen * 7: Joel E. Mann: Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies * 8: Mauro Bonazzi: Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord * 9: David Conan Wolfsdorf: The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates * 10: Richard Bett: Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion * 11: Monte Ransome Johnson: The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera * 12: Alex Gottesman: The S
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of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants * 13: Phillip Sidney Horky: Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence: A Lost Defense of Democracy * 14: David Conan Wolfsdorf: On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi * 15: Susan Prince: Antisthenes' Ethics * 16: Mikolaj Domaradzki: Antisthenes and Allegoresis * 17: Voula Tsouna: Aristippus of Cyrene * 18: David M. Johnson: Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics * 19: Nicholas D. Smith: Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues * 20: Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson: On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum * TOPICS AND FIELDS * 21: Joseph Skinner: Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values * 22: Paul Demont: Ethics in Early Greek Medicine * 23: Radcliffe Edmonds III: The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought * 24: Dimitri El Murr: Friendship in Early Greek Ethics * 25: Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: Justice and the Afterlife * 26: Eleonora Rocconi: Music and the Soul * 27: Christopher Rowe: The Teachability of Aret
among the Socratics * CODA * 28: Will Desmond: Diogenes of Sinope * 29: Tim O'Keefe: Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention * 30: Carl A. Huffman: Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics