Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

Informationen zum Autor James Warren is a Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics (2002), Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004) and Presocratics (2007), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (2009) and, with Frisbee Sheffield, The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2014). He has published articles on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy. Klappentext How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain? Zusammenfassung Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are able to think: to learn! understand! remember and recall! plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and! what is more! were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the pleasures of reason; 2. Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing; 3. Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing; 4. Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature; 5. Measuring future pleasures in Plato's Protagoras and Philebus; 6. Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato's Philebus; 7. Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory; 8. Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures; 9. Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: James Warren, James (University of Cambridge) Warren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107025448
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02544-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE