
Regret
A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology
James Warren(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 25. November 2021
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-884026-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. It was important for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a characteristic of neither fully virtuous nor wholly irredeemable characters. Rather, they took regret to be something that affects people who retrospectively feel pain at realising an earlier mistaken action. Regret sets out in full the accounts of the nature of this emotion found in the works of these philosophers, viewing them in the context of their respective accounts of virtuous and non-virtuous agents, ethical progress, the role of knowledge in producing good actions, and compares it with modern philosophical notions of 'agent regret'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-884026-8 (9780198840268)
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Person
James Warren studied Classics at Clare College, Cambridge, where he stayed to complete his MPhil and PhD. After two years as a Research Fellow at Magdalene College, in 2001 he took up a Lectureship at the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge and a Fellowship in Philosophy at Corpus Christi college. He became Professor of Ancient Philosophy in 2017.
Author
Professor of Ancient PhilosophyProfessor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Content
Introduction: Why Regret?
1: Virtue, Metameleia, Regret, and Remorse
2: Plato on Regret, Akrasia, and the Tyrannical Soul
3: Aristotle on Regret and Counter-Voluntary Actions
4: Aristotle on Regret and Akrasia
5: Metameleia and Ignorance
6: Stoic Regret
7: Gellius and Gallus on the Limits of Regret
8: Epilogue
1: Virtue, Metameleia, Regret, and Remorse
2: Plato on Regret, Akrasia, and the Tyrannical Soul
3: Aristotle on Regret and Counter-Voluntary Actions
4: Aristotle on Regret and Akrasia
5: Metameleia and Ignorance
6: Stoic Regret
7: Gellius and Gallus on the Limits of Regret
8: Epilogue

