The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the less-examined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.
The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the less-examined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.
David Machek is a Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Universität Bern. He has published articles in journals including Apeiron, Archiv für die Geschichte der Philosophie, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Philosophy East and West.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Plato On Making Life Worth Living By Doing One's Job 2. Aristotle on the Natural Goodness of Life 3. Decoupling Happy Life from Life Worth Living in Stoicism 4. Threshold Nears the Target: Hellenistic Hedonists on the Life Worth Living 5. Peripatetics on Vicious Humans and Caged Animals 6. Plotinus on the Worth of Embodied Existence.
Introduction 1. Plato On Making Life Worth Living By Doing One's Job 2. Aristotle on the Natural Goodness of Life 3. Decoupling Happy Life from Life Worth Living in Stoicism 4. Threshold Nears the Target: Hellenistic Hedonists on the Life Worth Living 5. Peripatetics on Vicious Humans and Caged Animals 6. Plotinus on the Worth of Embodied Existence.
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