Ancient Ethics and the Natural World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sattler, Barbara M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world. Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, but their actions are governed by norms whose relation to the natural world is up for debate. The essays in this volume, written by leading specialists in ancient philosophy, discuss how these facts about our relation to the world bear both upon ancient accounts of human goodness and also upon ancient accounts of the natural world itself. The volume includes discussion not only of Plato and Aristotle, but also of earlier and later thinkers, with an essay on the Presocratics and two essays that discuss later Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonist philosophers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108879552
• Artikelnr.: 66182551

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.