Ethics: 4 (Companions to Ancient Thought, Series Number 4)
Cambridge University Press, 7/12/2010
EAN 9780521388320, ISBN10: 0521388325
Paperback, 312 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
This fourth Companion to Ancient Thought is devoted to ancient ethics. The chapters range over the ethical theories of all the major philosophers and schools from the earliest times to the work of the Hellenistic philosophers. There is a substantial introduction which considers the question of what is distinctive about ancient ethics, and an extensive bibliography. This collection provides a sophisticated and accessible introduction to the moral theories of the ancient world.
1. Introduction
virtue and morality
2. Pre-platonic ethics Charles H. Kahn
3. Platonic ethics C. C. W. Taylor
4. Aristotle on nature and value Stephen Everson
5. Some issues in Aristotle's moral psychology John McDowell
6. The inferential foundations of Epicurean ethics David Sedley
7. Socratic paradox and Stoic theory T. H. Irwin
8. Doing without objective values
ancient and modern strategies Julia Annas
9. Moral responsibility
Aristotle and after Susan Sauvé Meyer.