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Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
Sommario
- Introduction
- INDIVIDUALS AND TEXTS
- 1: Johan C. Thom: The Pythagorean Acusmata
- 2: Shaul Tor: Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance
- 3: Mark A. Johnstone: On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought
- 4: John Palmer: Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles
- 5: Tazuko A. van Berkel: The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement
- 6: Kurt Lampe: The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen
- 7: Joel E. Mann: Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies
- 8: Mauro Bonazzi: Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord
- 9: David Conan Wolfsdorf: The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates
- 10: Richard Bett: Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion
- 11: Monte Ransome Johnson: The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera
- 12: Alex Gottesman: The S¿phrosyn¿ of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants
- 13: Phillip Sidney Horky: Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence: A Lost Defense of Democracy
- 14: David Conan Wolfsdorf: On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi
- 15: Susan Prince: Antisthenes' Ethics
- 16: Mikolaj Domaradzki: Antisthenes and Allegoresis
- 17: Voula Tsouna: Aristippus of Cyrene
- 18: David M. Johnson: Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics
- 19: Nicholas D. Smith: Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues
- 20: Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson: On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum
- TOPICS AND FIELDS
- 21: Joseph Skinner: Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values
- 22: Paul Demont: Ethics in Early Greek Medicine
- 23: Radcliffe Edmonds III: The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought
- 24: Dimitri El Murr: Friendship in Early Greek Ethics
- 25: Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: Justice and the Afterlife
- 26: Eleonora Rocconi: Music and the Soul
- 27: Christopher Rowe: The Teachability of Aret¿ among the Socratics
- CODA
- 28: Will Desmond: Diogenes of Sinope
- 29: Tim O'Keefe: Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention
- 30: Carl A. Huffman: Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics
Info autore
David Conan Wolfsdorf is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. Previously he taught at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He is the author of On Goodness (Oxford, 2019), Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Cambridge, 2012), and Trials of Reason (Oxford, 2008).
Riassunto
Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
Testo aggiuntivo
In summary, everyone who works in early Greek philosophy cannot but welcome this volume. It is a well structured, carefully organized, scholarly, informative, and original work on the early history and philosophy of ethics ... The volume inspires us to reconsider early Greek philosophers not merely as pre-Socratics, pre-Platonists, or even pre-Aristotelians, but as individual thinkers in their own right who contributed in the development, the formation, and the continuation of the Greek philosophical tradition.
