
Ancient Ethics
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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.
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.
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.
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Hardy lehrt an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Prof. Dr. George Rudebusch lehrt Philosophie an der Northern Arizona University, USA. Er ist Autor der Bücher »Socrates, Pleasure, and Value« (1999) und »Socrates« (Blackwell, Great Minds, 2009).
Content
- 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 Human Nature 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
- Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith: Socratic and Platonic Moral Psychology
- Jo¨rg Hardy: Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism reconsidered
- George Rudebusch: Knowledge Rules
- May Sim: The Divided Line and United Psyche^ in Plato's Republic
- Mark L. McPherran: Socrates and the Religious Dimension of Plato's Thought
- Aristotle
- Mariana Anagnostopoulos: Aristotle on the Nature and Acquisition of Virtue
- Daniel C. Russell: Deliberation and Phronesis in Aristotle's Ethics
- Christopher Shields: Goodness is Meant in Many Ways
- Michael-Thomas Liske: Bedeutet Aristoteles' hexis-Konzeption der Tugend eine ethisch-psychologische Determination?
- Dorothea Frede: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der aristotelischen Tugendethik fu¨r das 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 Ethics
- Otfried Ho¨ffe: Lebenskunst und Moral. Skizze einer Fundamentalethik
- General Bibliography
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