State and Nature : : Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy /

State and Nature : : Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy / / ed. by Peter Adamson, Christof Rapp.

A much-maligned feature of ancient and medieval political thought is its tendency to appeal to nature to establish norms for human communities. From Aristotle's claim that humans are "political animals" to Aquinas' invocation of "natural law," it may seem that pre-moder...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Adamson, Peter,
Brouwer, René,
Brüllmann, Philipp,
Horn, Christoph,
Humfress, Caroline,
Karamanolis, George,
Keyt, David,
Lienemann, Béatrice,
Miller, Fred D.,
Noble, Christopher Isaac,
O’Keefe, Tim,
Pelletier, Jenny,
Primavesi, Oliver,
Rapp, Christof,
Scott, Dominic,
Toivanen, Juhana,
Tuominen, Miira,
Woolf, Raphael,
HerausgeberIn:
Adamson, Peter,
Rapp, Christof,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 424 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Plato and Aristotle
  • Human Nature and Legal Norms: Antiphon the Sophist as Anonymous Target in Plato’s Republic IX
  • Natural Born Philosophers
  • Normative Naturalism in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy?
  • Whose State? Whose Nature? How Aristotle’s Polis is ‘Natural’
  • Aristotle on Freedom, Nature, and Law
  • Aristotle on the Rationality of Women: Consequences for Virtue and Practical Accountability
  • Part II: Hellenistic Philosophy
  • Cynic Origins of the Stoic Doctrine of Natural Law?
  • The Normativity of Nature in Epicurean Ethics and Politics
  • Nature and Psychology in Cicero’s Republic
  • Unnatural Law: A Ciceronian Perspective
  • Natural Law and Casuistic Reasoning in Roman Jurisprudence
  • Part III: Late Antiquity
  • Human Nature and Normativity in Plotinus
  • On Justice in Porphyry’s On Abstinence
  • Early Christian Philosophers on Society and Political Norms
  • Part IV: Medieval Philosophy
  • Against Nature: Two Critics of Naturalism in the Islamic World
  • “Like Ants in a Colony We Do Our Share”: Political Animals in Medieval Philosophy
  • Ockham on Human Freedom and the Nature and Origin of Lordship
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

Similar Items