Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

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Title: Reason and Emotion : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
Part One. Socrates and Plato
1. Notes on Xenophon's Socrates
2. Socrates and Plato in Plato's Gorgias
3. The Unity of Virtue
4. Plato's Theory of Human Motivation
5. The Psychology of Justice in Plato
6. Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus
7. Plato's Statesman and Politics
Part Two. Aristotle
8. The Magna Moralia and Aristotle's Moral Philosophy
9. Contemplation and Happiness: A Reconsideration
10. Some Remarks on Aristotle's Moral Psychology
11. Reason, Moral Virtue, and Moral Value
12. Aristotle on the Authority of "Appearances5
13. Aristotle on the Goods of Fortune
14. Aristotle on the Forms of Friendship
15. Friendship and the Good in Aristotle
16. Political Animals and Civic Friendship
17. Justice and Rights in Aristotle's Politics
18. Ethical-Political Theory in Aristotle's Rhetoric
19. An Aristotelian Theory of the Emotions
Part Three. Hellenistic Philosophy
20. Eudaimonism, the Appeal to Nature, and "Moral Duty55 in Stoicism
21. Posidonius on Emotions
22. Pleasure and Desire in Epicurus
23. Greek Philosophers on Euthanasia and Suicide
Bibliography Of Works Cited
Index Of Passages
General Index

Contributor: Cooper, John M. [Author]

Published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2021]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (604 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691223261

ISBN: 9780691223261

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Keywords: Ethics, Ancient ; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical ; Antiochus ; Athenaeus ; Chrysippus ; Cicero ; Diotima ; Epictetus ; Isocrates ; Lucretius ; Marcus Aurelius ; Olympiodorus ; Plotinus ; Posidonius ; Priam ; akrasia ; altruism ; animals ; co-instantiation ; courage ; death ; dialectic ; educators ; empiricism ; [...]

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Footnote: In English

Description: 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 "good character" 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

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