James Warren

Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, recollecting and anticipating. We enjoy finding something out. We are pained to discover that a belief we hold is false. We can think back and enjoy or be upset by recalling past events. And we can plan for and enjoy imagining pleasures yet to come. This book is about what Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans and the Cyrenaics had to say about these relationships between pleasure and reason.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316188873
• Artikelnr.: 49268386

Autorenporträt

James Warren is a former attorney and federal prosecutor who resides in the greater Los Angeles area. He is married to Carolyn who is a concert violinist, and they have three adult children. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America.When not writing, or busy working, James interests include NFL football, watching movies, and reading mysteries, thrillers, and historical non-fiction. His favourite books include The Reversal by Michael Connelly and The Firm by John Grisham.He particularly enjoys travelling and hopes to do more of it. He has a fondness for the Yellowstone National Park and an Alaskan cruise is on his bucket list, although any excursion to the ocean, particularly to California's central coast he finds worthwhile.James' legal experience and passion for fiction have come together in the form of his stand-out debut THAT CARE FORGOT, set in 1990s New Orleans. Further titles are on the way, including the brilliant legal thriller PROTECTION RACKET set in present-day New York.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the pleasures of reason
2. Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing
3. Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing
4. Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature
5. Measuring future pleasures in Plato's Protagoras and Philebus
6. Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato's Philebus
7. Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory
8. Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures
9. Epilogue.