On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics

On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics
Author: William Fortenbaugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351501909

Providing the only full-length study of the compendium of Greek philosophy attributed to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, this volume elucidates Stoic and Peripatetic ethics for classicists and philosophers. The authors provide careful textual analysis of important passages by this synthesizer of the major schools of Greek thought. Essays include translations of major passages.

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics
Author: Georgia Tsouni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108420583

Offers a re-appraisal of the sources and philosophical significance of Peripatetic ethics as interpreted and appropriated by Antiochus of Ascalon.

Ethics After Aristotle

Ethics After Aristotle
Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674369793

From the earliest times, philosophers and others have thought deeply about ethical questions. But it was Aristotle who founded ethics as a discipline with clear principles and well-defined boundaries. Ethics After Aristotle focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, underscoring the thinker’s enduring influence on the philosophers who followed in his footsteps from 300 BCE to 200 CE. Beginning with Aristotle’s student and collaborator Theophrastus, Brad Inwood traces the development of Aristotelian ethics up to the third-century Athenian philosopher Alexander of Aphrodisias. He shows that there was no monolithic tradition in the school, but a rich variety of moral theory. The philosophers of the Peripatetic school produced surprisingly varied theories in dialogue with other philosophical traditions, generating rich insight into human virtue and happiness. What unifies the different strands of thought—what makes them distinctively Aristotelian—is a form of ethical naturalism: that our knowledge of the good and virtuous life depends first on understanding our place in the natural world, and second on the exercise of our natural dispositions in distinctively human activities. What is now referred to as “virtue ethics,” Inwood argues, is a less important part of Aristotle’s legacy than the naturalistic approach Aristotle articulated and his philosophical descendants developed further. Offering a wide range of ways of thinking about ethics from an ancient perspective, Ethics After Aristotle is a penetrating study of how philosophy evolves in the wake of an unusually powerful and original thinker.

From Stoicism to Platonism

From Stoicism to Platonism
Author: Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107166195

This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200
Author: R. W. Sharples
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139491520

This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.

Stoic Studies

Stoic Studies
Author: A. A. Long
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-08-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780520229747

"Long's discussions enjoy consistently thorough contextualization; psychology cannot be understood without natural philosophy, nor dialectic without ethics, and Long's case studies show both that and how that is the case, in persuasive detail and with enviable clarity. The pieces fall into three subject areas: intellectual and cultural inheritance, ethics, and psychology."—Catherine Atherton, New College, Oxford "A. A. Long's Stoic Studies does far more than bring together a set of important papers on Stoicism. Read together, the papers in this collection paint two pictures. One is of the author and his broad-minded pursuit of an intellectual 'fascination,' a pursuit carried out with historical and literary rigour as well as considerable philosophical ingenuity. The other is of the Stoic school itself, emerging from a passion for Socratic arguments... It is a long and remarkably rich philosophical history, and Tony Long has done a very great deal to help others feel its fascination."—Brad Inwood, University of Toronto "Long writes in a lucid, engaging way, even when treating difficult subjects or referring to complex scholarly and philosophical debates. He has a special gift for combining, in thirty pages or so, an illuminating survey of a topic with at least one sustained analysis of a key text or theory. As a result, this collection has a coherence and internal development that makes it comparable with a good monograph."—Christopher Gill, University of Exeter

Topics in Stoic Philosophy

Topics in Stoic Philosophy
Author: Katerina Ierodiakonou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199248803

Stoicism (third century BC to second century AD) is one of the richest and most influential intellectual traditions of antiquity. Leading scholars here contribute new studies of a set of topics which are the focus of current research in this area. They combine careful analytical attention tothe original texts with historical sensitivity and philosophical acuity, to provide the basis for a better understanding of Stoic ethics, political theory, logic, and physics. Whereas till recently the study of Hellenistic philosophy has been mainly a historical enterprise, these essays demonstratethat a proper treatment of Stoicism engages us in philosophical questions of considerable current relevance and interest.

Hierocles the Stoic

Hierocles the Stoic
Author: Ilaria Ramelli
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1589834186

Hierocles, the Stoic philosopher of the early imperial age, is a crucial witness to Middle and Neo-Stoicism, especially with regard to their ethical philosophy. In this volume, all of Hierocles surviving works are translated into English for the first time, with the original Greek and a facing English translation: the Elements of Ethics, preserved on papyrus, along with all fragments and excerpts from the treatise On Duties, collected by Stobaeus in the fifth century C.E. and dealing mainly with social relationships, marriage, household, and family. In addition, Ramelli s introductory essay demonstrates how Hierocles was indebted to the Old Stoa and how he modified its doctrines in accord with Middle Stoicism and further developments in philosophy as well as his personal views. Finally, Ramelli s extensive commentary on Hierocles works clarifies philosophical questions raised by the text and provides rich and updated references to existing scholarship.

The Stoics

The Stoics
Author: F. H. Sandbach
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0359088120

'Not only one of the best but also the most comprehensive treatment of Stoicism written this century.' -""Times Literary Supplement "" Stoic philosophy had a profound effect on thought and conduct in the ancient world, and has continued to influence philosophers and thinkers from the Renaissance to the present day. Professor Sandbach, in this brilliant and original study, presents the main outlines of the system, concentrating in particular on the ethical teaching, historically the most important facet of the Stoic philosophy. The author traces the changes in doctrine and emphasis through the centuries, gives an account of individual thinkers and writers and describes the role played by adherents of the Stoic faith in contemporary society. The Stoics will be welcomed both by classicists and philosophers as well as by the general reader, as a lucid exposition of an important philosophy. ""Will prove lucid for the uninitiated and stimulating for the specialist.' -""Classical Review ""

The Philosophy of Antiochus

The Philosophy of Antiochus
Author: David Sedley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521198542

This book reconstructs and evaluates the philosophy of a thinker who was uniquely influential among Romans of the first century BC.