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Rationality and Happiness - From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (Hardcover)
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Rationality and Happiness - From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
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This volume explores the relationship between rationality and
happiness from ancient Greek philosophy to early Latin medieval
philosophy. What connection is there between human rationality and
happiness? This issue was uppermost in the minds of the Ancient
Greek philosophers and continued to be of importance during the
entire early medieval period. Starting with theSocrates of Plato's
early dialogues, who is regarded as having initiated the
eudaimonistic ethical tradition, the present volume looks at Plato,
Aristotle, the Skeptics, Seneca [Stoicism], Epicurus, Plotinus
[neo-Platonism], Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, and ends with
Abelard, the final major figure in early medieval philosophy.
Special efforts are made to reveal and trace the continuity and
development of the views on rationality and happiness among these
major thinkers within this period. The book's approach is
historical, but the topics it treats are relevant to many
discussions pursued in contemporary philosophical circles.
Specifically, the book aims to make two major contributions to the
ongoing development of virtue ethics. First, contemporary virtue
ethics often draws distinctions between ancient Greek ethics and
modern moral philosophy [mainly utilitarianism and Kantianism], and
seeks to model ethics on ancient ethics. In doing so, however,
contemporary virtue ethics often ignores the transition from Greek
ethics to the early Latin medieval tradition. Second, contemporary
virtue-based ethics, in its efforts to seek insights from ancient
ethics, centers on virtue. In contrast, in ancient and medieval
ethics, virtue is pursued for the sake of happiness [eudaimonia],
and virtue is conceived as excellence of rationality. Hence, the
relationship between rationality and happiness provides the
framework for ethical inquiry within which the discussion of virtue
takes place. Contributors: JULIA ANNAS, RICHARD BETT, JORGE J.E.
GRACIA, BRAD INWOOD, WILLIAM MANN,JOHN MARENBON, GARETH B.
MATTHEWS, MARK L. McPHERRAN, DONALD MORRISON, C.C.W. TAYLOR,
JONATHAN SANFORD, JIYUAN YU. Jiyuan Yu is Assistant Professor of
Ancient Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Jorge J. E. Gracia is Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguised
Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Comparative
Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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