Ancient Ethics and the Natural World by Barbara M. Sattler Hardcover Book

Description: Ancient Ethics and the Natural World by Barbara M. Sattler, Ursula Coope This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. It will be of interest to academics and students in philosophy and classics, and more generally to anyone intrigued by novel ideas about the relation between ethics and nature. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Ursula Coope is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is author of Time for Aristotle: Physics IV. 20-14 (2005) and Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought (2020), and has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on ancient philosophy. Barbara M. Sattler is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She is author of The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge, 2020) and editor of One Book, the Whole Universe: Platos Timaeus Today (with Richard D. Mohr, 2010). Her research has appeared in dozens of edited collections and journals. Table of Contents Introduction Ursula Coope and Barbara Sattler; Part I. Humans in nature: nature and law, humans and natural catastrophes: 1. Legislating in accordance with nature in Platos Laws Alex Long; 2. Platos astronomy and moral history in the Timaeus Barbara Sattler: 3. Natural catastrophe in Greek and Roman Philosophy A. A. Long; Part II. Humans as godlike, gods as human-like: Presocratics and Platonists: 4. Anthropomorphism and epistemic anthropo-philautia: the early critiques by Xenophanes and Heraclitus Alexander P. D. Mourelatos; 5. Nature and divinity in the notion of godlikeness Li Fan; Part III.Emotions, reason, and the natural world (Aristotle); 6. Human and animal emotions in Aristotle Jamie Dow; 7. Reasonable and unreasonable affections and human nature Dorothea Frede; Part IV. Action and the natural world (Aristotle): 8. Chains that do not bind: causation and necessity in Aristotle Thomas Tuozzo; 9. Aristotle on nature, deliberation and purposiveness Ursula Coope; Part V. The naturalness of goodness; 10. Eudoxuss hedonism Joachim Aufderheide; 11. Aristotle and Socrates in the eudemian ethics on the naturalness of goodness Christopher Rowe. Review This is an excellent collection of new research in several areas of ancient Greek philosophy. Every one of these essays has moments of real brilliance. All are valuable in at least several respects. Brad Inwood, Yale University Promotional This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. Review Quote This is an excellent collection of new research in several areas of ancient Greek philosophy. Every one of these essays has moments of real brilliance. All are valuable in at least several respects. Brad Inwood, Yale University Promotional "Headline" This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. Description for Bookstore This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. It will be of interest to academics and students in philosophy and classics, and more generally to anyone intrigued by novel ideas about the relation between ethics and nature. Description for Library This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. It will be of interest to academics and students in philosophy and classics, and more generally to anyone intrigued by novel ideas about the relation between ethics and nature. Details ISBN1108839789 Pages 280 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2021 ISBN-10 1108839789 ISBN-13 9781108839785 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2021-08-12 UK Release Date 2021-08-12 AU Release Date 2021-08-12 NZ Release Date 2021-08-12 Author Ursula Coope Alternative 9781108885133 Edited by Ursula Coope DEWEY 180 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168632297;

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