Ethics After Aristotle

The earliest philosophers thought deeply about ethical questions, but Aristotle founded ethics as a well-defined discipline. Brad Inwood focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and explores the thinker¿s influence on the philosophers who followed in his footsteps from 300 BCE to 200 CE.

About the author

Brad Inwood is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University.

Summary

The earliest philosophers thought deeply about ethical questions, but Aristotle founded ethics as a well-defined discipline. Brad Inwood focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds and explores the thinker’s influence on the philosophers who followed in his footsteps from 300 BCE to 200 CE.

Product details

• Authors: Brad Inwood, Inwood Brad
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780674731257
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73125-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; Carl Newell Jackson Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500