Epicurean Justice - Nature, Agreement, and Virtue

"In this book, the first English-language monograph on the topic, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch draws on a range of sources including papyrological evidence to give a comprehensive account of the theory of justice advanced by the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and his followers"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Origin of Justice; 2. Contractual Justice; 3. Aretaic Justice; 4. Moral Psychology; 5. Justice and Law; 6. Ethical Naturalism; 7. Conclusion; Appendix 1-Oike¿sis; Appendix 2-Cicero, The Epicureans, and the ring of Gyges; Bibliography; Index of Passages; General Index.

About the author

Jan Maximilian Robitzsch is a senior researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Greifswald. He is the coeditor of Speeches for the Dead: Essays on Plato's Menexenus (2018) and the author of a number of articles in journals including Ancient Philosophy, Apeiron, and Classical Quarterly.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Maximilian Robitzsch
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009429443
• ISBN: 978-1-009-42944-3
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Greece, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law