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The reception of Aristotle's Ethics /

Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the...

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Autres auteurs: Miller, Jon
Format: Printed Book
Langue:English
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table des matières:
  • The Nicomachean ethics in Hellenistic philosophy: a hidden treasure? / Karen Margrethe Nielsen
  • The transformation of Aristotle's Ethics in Roman philosophy / Christopher Gill
  • Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus / Dominic J. O'Meara
  • St. Augustine's appropriation and transformation of Aristotelian eudaimonia / Michael W. Tkacz
  • The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean ethics / Anna Akasoy
  • Maimonides' appropriation of Aristotle's ethics / Kenneth Seeskin
  • The relation of prudence and synderesis to happiness in the medieval commentaries on Aristotle's ethics / Anthony Celano
  • Using Seneca to read Aristotle: the curious methods of Buridan's ethics / Jack Zupko
  • Aristotle's ethics in the Renaissance / David A. Lines
  • The end of ends? : Aristotelian themes in early modern ethics / Donald Rutherford
  • Affective conflict and virtue: Hume's answer to Aristotle / Kate Abramson
  • Aristotle and Kant on ethics / Manfred Kuehn
  • The fall and rise of Aristotelian ethics in Anglo-American moral philosophy: 19th and 20th century / Jennifer Welchman..