Ancient Ethics / Jörg Hardy, George Rudebusch

• HerausgeberIn: Hardy, Jörg Prof. Dr.; Rudebusch, George Dr.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume presents essays on Ancient ethics from Homer to Plotinus with a focus on the significance of Ancient ethical thinking for contemporary ethics. Adapting Kant's words, we might describe philosophers today as holding that meta-ethics without normative ethics is empty; normative ethics without meta-ethics is blind. One fascinating feature of Ancient ethics is its close connection between content and method, between normative ethics and meta-ethics. In connecting ethical, epistemological, and cosmological issues, Ancient ethical theories strive for an integrated understanding of normativity. The project of this volume is to capture some of the colours of the bright spectrum of ancient ethics. The goal of bundling them together is, ultimately, to shed better light on the issues of contemporary ethics. Topics: Classical Chinese Ethics, Indian Ethics, Homeric Ethics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Plotinus, Ancient and Modern Moral Psychology, Hybrid Theories of Normativity, The Unity of the Virtues, The Art of Life and Morality (Lebenskunst und Moral). Contributors: J. Annas, M. Anagnostopoulos, R. Aprressyan, Th. C. Brickhouse / N. D. Smith, J. Bussanich, C. Collobert, S. Delcomminette, W. Detel, D. Frede, L. Gerson, Ch. Halbig, J. Hardy, O. Höffe, B. Inwood, M.-Th. Liske, L. Pfister, M. McPherran, J. Piering, G. Rudebusch, D. Russell, G. Santas, Ch. Shields, M. Sim, C. C. Taylor.

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright; Note on Convention; Contributors; Contents; Body; Jo ̈rg Hardy / George Rudebusch: Ancient Ethics: Introduction; Eastern Traditions; Lauren F. Pfister: Classical Debates about the Moral Character of HumanNature in Ancient China; John Bussanich: Ethics in Ancient India; Early Greek Thought; Catherine Collobert: Homeric Ethics: Fame and Prudence; Ruben Apressyan: Homeric Ethics: Prospective Tendencies; Plato; Gerasimos Santas: The Socratic Method and Ethics; Christopher Taylor: The Ethics of Plato's Apology

Michael-Thomas Liske: Bedeutet Aristoteles' hexis-Konzeption der Tugend eineethisch-psychologische Determination?Dorothea Frede: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der aristotelischen Tugendethik fu ̈rdas Leben; Hellenistic philosophy; Julia Annas: Ethics in Stoic Philosophy; Brad Inwood: Moral Judgement in Seneca; Julie Piering: Cynic Ethics: Lives Worth Examining; Plotinus; Lloyd P. Gerson: Being as Goodness; Sylvain Delcomminette: Plotin et le proble`me de la fondation de la liberte; General Topics; Christoph Halbig: Die Einheit der Tugenden.U ̈berlegungen zur Struktur eines Problems

Wolfgang Detel: Semantic Normativity and the Foundation of Ancient EthicsOtfried Ho ̈ffe: Lebenskunst und Moral.Skizze einer Fundamentalethik; General Bibliography