Reason and Emotion (eBook)

Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

John M. Cooper (Autor)

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2021
604 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22326-1 (ISBN)

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This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond. For the ancient philosophers, Cooper shows here, morality was "e;good character"e; and what that entailed: good judgment, sensitivity, openness, reflectiveness, and a secure and correct sense of who one was and how one stood in relation to others and the surrounding world. Ethical theory was about the best way to be rather than any principles for what to do in particular circumstances or in relation to recurrent temptations. Moral psychology was the study of the psychological conditions required for good character--the sorts of desires, the attitudes to self and others, the states of mind and feeling, the kinds of knowledge and insight. Together these papers illustrate brilliantly how, by studying the arguments of the Greek philosophers in their diverse theories about the best human life and its psychological underpinnings, we can expand our own moral understanding and imagination and enrich our own moral thought. The collection will be crucial reading for anyone interested in classical philosophy and what it can contribute to reflection on contemporary questions about ethics and human life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Akrasia • Alexander Nehamas • Altruism • Analogy • animals • Antiochus • Apology (Plato) • Aristotelian Ethics • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Arius Didymus • Athenaeus • Bibliography • Bruns, Ivo • Burkert, W. • Callicles • cardinal virtues • Chrysippus • Cicero • co-instantiation • Concept • Consciousness • Consideration • Courage • Criticism • Death • Dialectic • Diotima • Educators • Empiricism • Endoxa • Epictetus • epicurus • ethics • Eudaimonia • Eudaimonism • Eudemian Ethics • Eunoia • euthanasia • Euthydemus (dialogue) • Euthyphro (prophet) • Explanation • explication • Feeling • First principle • Flourishing • glaucon • Good and evil • goods, external • Gorgias • hatred • Hedonism • herding • hypothesis • Imagination • incontinence • Indication (medicine) • inference • interentailment of virtues • Isocrates • Justice • Kelsey, Sean • Knowledge • language • Lucretius • Magna Moralia • Marcus Aurelius • Michael Frede • Mitsis, Phillip • Moral Character • Moral Development • Morality • moral psychology • motivations, human • music • Mutatis mutandis • Natural and legal rights • Nature • Nicomachean Ethics • nonrational desires • Objectivity • Olympiodorus • On Justice • oratory • Pathos • Penner, T. • perfection • Phaedo • Phaedrus (dialogue) • phantasiai • phenomenon • Philebus • Philosopher • philosophical theory • Philosophy • Phronesis • piety • pity • Plato • Platonism • Pleasure • Plotinus • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politics • Posidonius • Practical reason • premise • priam • Principle • prohairesis • Protagoras • Psychology • Quantity • Rationality • reason • Republic (Plato) • Requirement • rhetoric • rights • Ruler • self-awareness • self-esteem • Self-knowledge (psychology) • socratic • Socratic dialogue • Sophist • Stoicism • Strauss, L. • Suggestion • Suicide • syllogism • Symposium (Plato) • Theaetetus (dialogue) • theory • Theory of Forms • Thought • treatise • Understanding • Usage • Value theory • virtue • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22326-2 / 0691223262
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22326-1 / 9780691223261