Ancient Ethics and the Natural World

This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world.

Author: Barbara M. Sattler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108839789

Category: Philosophy

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This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world. Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, but their actions are governed by norms whose relation to the natural world is up for debate. The essays in this volume, written by leading specialists in ancient philosophy, discuss how these facts about our relation to the world bear both upon ancient accounts of human goodness and also upon ancient accounts of the natural world itself. The volume includes discussion not only of Plato and Aristotle, but also of earlier and later thinkers, with an essay on the Presocratics and two essays that discuss later Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonist philosophers.
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Ancient Ethics and the Natural World

ANCIENT ETHICS AND THE NATURAL WORLD This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation ... Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, ...

Author: Barbara M. Sattler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108879552

Category: Philosophy

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This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the close relation between ancient ethics and the study of the natural world. Human beings are in some sense part of the natural world, and they live their lives within a larger cosmos, but their actions are governed by norms whose relation to the natural world is up for debate. The essays in this volume, written by leading specialists in ancient philosophy, discuss how these facts about our relation to the world bear both upon ancient accounts of human goodness and also upon ancient accounts of the natural world itself. The volume includes discussion not only of Plato and Aristotle, but also of earlier and later thinkers, with an essay on the Presocratics and two essays that discuss later Epicurean, Stoic, and Neoplatonist philosophers.
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Ancient Ethics

To 'follow nature' in this special sense is to regulate these otherwise 'natural' pursuits by reason. It is to exercise one's rational faculties in selecting among the natural objects of pursuit (sometimes even abstaining from their ...

Author: Susan Sauvé Meyer

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135948306

Category: History

Page: 192

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This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics. It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and schools (Stoics and Epicureans) from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers, analyzing their main arguments and assessing their legacy. This book maps the foundations of this key area, which is crucial knowledge across the disciplines and essential for a wide range of readers.
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

Is ethics simply concerned with how we treat each other or is it broader in scope? Do its requirements go beyond various sorts of selfimprovement in character to include knowledge of the natural world? Second, if the study of nature is ...

Author: Lorelle D. Semley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107053915

Category: History

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A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.
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Nietzsche s Renewal of Ancient Ethics

In his view, nature (including human life) is not characterized by privation but by abundance. ... According to him, a truly scientific understanding of human beings as natural beings within the natural world would take as its basis the ...

Author: Neil Durrant

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350298880

Category: Philosophy

Page: 225

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Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics connects different strands in Nietzsche studies to progress a unique interpretation of friendship in his writings. Exploring this alternative approach to Nietzsche's ethics through the influence of ancient Greek ideals on his ideas, Neil Durrant highlights the importance of contest for developing strong friendships. Durrant traces the history of what Nietzsche termed a 'higher friendship' to the ancient Greek ideal of the Homeric hero. In this kind of friendship, neither person attempts to tyrannize or dominate the other but rather aims to promote the differences between them as a way of stimulating stronger and fiercer contests. Through this exchange, they discover new heights-new standards of excellence-both for themselves and for others. Durrant shows how the development of this approach to personal relationships relied on Nietzsche rejecting the Christian ideals of love and compassion to build an ethics which incorporated aspects of evolutionary biology into the ancient Homeric ideals he was himself wedded to. The resulting 'higher friendship' is strong enough to include not only love and compassion, but also enmity and opposition, expanding our notion of what is good and ethical in the process.
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Skill in Ancient Ethics

In all his dialogues, Plato offers us evidence that, while virtue conforms to nature (it must conform to the way the natural world is, and the way human beings are naturally suited for flourishing), the natural and spontaneous ...

Author: Tom Angier

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350104341

Category: Philosophy

Page: 392

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Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Divided into six sections – on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Mencius and Xunzi, the Mohists and Zhuangzi, and comparative perspectives – world-leading philosophers explore the significance of skill according to traditional figures, as well as lesser-known philosophers such as Carneades and Antipater, and texts such as the Zhuangzi. In doing so, the seventeen contributors illustrate how skill, expertise and 'know how' are essential to and foundational within ancient ethical thought. As the first collection to foreground skill as central to ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese ethics, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the value of cross-cultural philosophy today.
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Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics

Ancient Ethics and the Natural World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 203–217. 'A History of the Text of the Eudemian Ethics', in Jimenez, M., Gartner, C., and Bobonich, C. (eds.), Aristotle's Other Ethics. Forthcoming.

Author: Giulio Di Basilio

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000601251

Category: History

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Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aristotle’s ethics. This volume builds on a recent revival of interest in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics, which offers an invaluable complement to the Nicomachean Ethics in the study of the development of Aristotle's ethical ideas. It brings together a series of new studies by leading scholars covering the main points of inquiry raised by the relationship between the two works, exploring their continuities and divergences. At the same time, it showcases a variety of approaches to and perspectives on the main questions posed by Aristotle’s ethical thought. Investigating the Relationship Between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics is offered as a contribution to long-standing debates over Aristotle's ethical thinking, as well as an inspiration for new approaches, which take both of his surviving ethical treatises seriously. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient philosophy and ethics, particularly Aristotle’s two ethics.
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The Greeks and the Environment

To these three ques- tions we must add a fourth : what is the connection between Plato's ethics and his conception of the natural world described in the first section ? The first argument is that Greek ethics in general is egocentric ...

Author: Laura Westra

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 0847684466

Category: Environmentalism

Page: 244

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Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Recognizing that these thinkers were not confronted with the environmental degradation that threatens contemporary philosophers, the contributors to this book find that the Greeks nevertheless provide an excellent foundation for a sound theory of environmentalism.
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The Morality of Happiness

'Nature' is for the Greeks just 'what there is', the world that the sciences study,405 and (apart from Plato in some ... principled way of distinguishing natural from unnatural impulses.407 What is the role of nature in ancient ethics?

Author: Julia Annas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199879649

Category: Philosophy

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Ancient ethical theories, based on the notions of virtue and happiness, have struck many as an attractive alternative to modern theories. But we cannot find out whether this is true until we understand ancient ethics--and to do this we need to examine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory, not just the details of one or two theories. In this book, Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy and presents it in a way that is easily accessible to anyone with an interest in ancient or modern ethics. She examines the fundamental notions of happiness and virtue, the role of nature in ethical justification and the relation between concern for self and concern for others. Her careful examination of the ancient debates and arguments shows that many widespread assumptions about ancient ethics are quite mistaken. Ancient ethical theories are not egoistic, and do not depend for their acceptance on metaphysical theories of a teleological kind. Most centrally, they are recognizably theories of morality, and the ancient disputes about the place of virtue in happiness can be seen as akin to modern disputes about the demands of morality.
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The Players of Religion

There are many within the One-God religions that have a deep respect for the natural world and the sciences, but most of these people are blinded by the ancient ethics of their holy scriptures. Therefore the natural ethics ...

Author: Nicholas Shaw

Publisher: ShieldCrest

ISBN: 9780955855788

Category: Religion

Page: 308

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The Players of religion is a controversial philosophical discourse that is written in a friendly and entertaining manner, that should show people this is the way in which religion should be discussed. All the characters in this book are of religious significance, but there is one character that was once a true philosopher, and that is Sankara.
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