Ancient Ethics and the Natural World

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Edited by Barbara M. Sattler, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Ursula Coope, University of Oxford

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781108885133
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108885133

Subjects:: Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, 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.

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

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Ancient Ethics and the Natural World
pp i-ii

Ancient Ethics and the Natural World - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-ix

Note on the Editors
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-12

Part I - Humans in Nature: Nature and Law, Humans and Natural Catastrophes
pp 13-68

Chapter 1 - Legislating in Accordance with Nature in Plato’s Laws
pp 15-31

Chapter 2 - Astronomy and Moral History in Plato’s Timaeus
pp 32-49

Chapter 3 - Natural Catastrophe in Greek and Roman Philosophy
pp 50-68

Part II - Humans as Godlike, Gods as Humanlike: Presocratics and Platonists
pp 69-106

Chapter 4 - Anthropomorphism and Epistemic Anthropo-philautia: The Early Critiques by Xenophanes and Heraclitus
pp 71-89

Chapter 5 - Nature and Divinity in the Notion of Godlikeness
pp 90-106

Part III - Emotions, Reason, and the Natural World (Aristotle)
pp 107-144

Chapter 6 - Human and Animal Emotions in Aristotle
pp 109-124

Chapter 7 - Reasonable and Unreasonable Affections and Human Nature
pp 125-144

Part IV - Action and the Natural World (Aristotle)
pp 145-182

Chapter 8 - Chains That Do Not Bind: Causation and Necessity in Aristotle
pp 147-163

Chapter 9 - Aristotle on Nature, Deliberation, and Purposiveness
pp 164-182

Part V - The Naturalness of Goodness
pp 183-217

Chapter 10 - Eudoxus’ Hedonism
pp 185-202

Chapter 11 - Aristotle and Socrates in the Eudemian Ethics on the Naturalness of Goodness
pp 203-217

Bibliography
pp 218-228

Index Locorum
pp 229-233

General Index
pp 234-236

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