Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Cambridge University Press, 2/28/2019
EAN 9781108420587, ISBN10: 1108420583
Hardcover, 234 pages, 22.4 x 14.4 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni challenges previous characterisations of Antiochus' philosophical project as 'eclectic' and shows how his reconstruction of the ethics of the 'Old Academy' demonstrates a careful attempt to update the ancient heritage, and predominantly the views of Aristotle and the Peripatos, in the light of contemporary Stoic-led debates. This results in both a hermeneutically complex and a philosophically exciting reading of the old tradition. A case in point is the way Antiochus grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis), thus offering a naturalistic version of Aristotelian ethics.
Introduction
Part I
1. Antiochus in Rome
2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy
Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy'
3. OikeiÃ…Âsis and the telos
4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account
5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiÃ…Âsis
6. OikeiÃ…Âsis towards theoretical virtue
7. Social oikeiÃ…Âsis
8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life
9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account
Epilogue.