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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition
of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas
gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy,
emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach
of lively discussion and argument. Getting away from the
presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great
Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and
liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes
and styles. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect
updates in the field, with new illustrations and up to date further
reading to allow further exploration of the field. The text has
been expanded and modernized to be more comprehensive and
accessible to the general reader, as well as exploring the relation
of the tradition of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy to other
traditions and to us. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both
in the long history of women's struggles for political, legal,
economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of
rigorous intellectual analyses of women's subordination. One of the
lasting legacies of Mill's The Subjection of Women is its careful
argument for the need for justice at both the 'public' and the
'private' levels, which requires changes at the domestic level that
are as radical in the 21st century as they were in the 19th. The
essays collected in this critical edition represent a variety of
interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of
the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women
including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection
is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author's position,
intended to assist readers encountering the material for the first
time
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.
Outlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. It is the fullest extant account of ancient skepticism, and it is also one of our most copious sources of information about the other Hellenistic philosophies. Its argumentative approach revolutionized the study of philosophy when Sextus' works were rediscovered in the sixteenth century. This volume presents the accurate and readable translation that was first published in 1994, together with a substantial new historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Barnes.
This book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato's writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. It also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love. It explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness and touches on his arguments for the immorality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe.
Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the
intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws
and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty
essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores
the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the
Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and
what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions
and possibilities of knowing. Calling attention to the
characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this
book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs.
In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of
knowledge, major thinkers, and schools of thought, this work shows
us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for
understanding life, language, production, and action. The authors
evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about
history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches,
but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, and
philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of
Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific
fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new
perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea;
studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various
versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the
unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek
civilization--and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal
trait of humankind. With thirty-two pages of color illustrations,
this work conveys the splendor and vitality of the Greek
intellectual adventure.
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one, in which a constant note is that of discussion and argument. This book aims to introduce readers to some ancient debates and to get them to engage with the ancient developments of some themes. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book aims to give readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This 2001 translation makes one of the most important texts in
ancient philosophy available to modern readers. Cicero is
increasingly being appreciated as an intelligent and well-educated
amateur philosopher, and in this work he presents the major ethical
theories of his time in a way designed to get the reader
philosophically engaged in the important debates. Raphael Woolf's
translation does justice to Cicero's argumentative vigour as well
as to the philosophical ideas involved, while Julia Annas's
introduction and notes provide a clear and accessible explanation
of the philosophical context of the work. This edition will appeal
to all readers interested in this central text in ancient
philosophy and the history of ethics.
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