Knowledge, Nature, and the Good : : Essays on Ancient Philosophy /

Knowledge, Nature, and the Good : : Essays on Ancient Philosophy / / John M. Cooper.

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Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods--from Hippocratic med...

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Cooper, John M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • KNOWLEDGE
  • CHAPTER 1. Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine
  • CHAPTER 2. Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184–186)
  • CHAPTER 3. Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the Independence of Oratory from Philosophy
  • CHAPTER 4. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Skeptic
  • NATURE
  • CHAPTER 5. Aristotle on Natural Teleology
  • CHAPTER 6. Hypothetical Necessity
  • CHAPTER 7 Two Notes on Aristotle on Mixture
  • CHAPTER 8 Metaphysics in Aristotle’s Embryology
  • CHAPTER 9 Stoic Autonomy
  • THE GOOD
  • CHAPTER 10. Two Theories of Justice
  • CHAPTER 11. Plato and Aristotle on “Finality” and “(Self-)Sufficiency”
  • CHAPTER 12. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Seneca
  • CHAPTER 13. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Marcus Aurelius
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Passages
  • General Index

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