Reason and Emotion : : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory / / John M. Cooper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Cooper, John M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (604 p.)

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 a...

Table of Contents

• 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