The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
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The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics

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The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics

About this book

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 impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780521513883
eBook ISBN
9781139847575
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. A note on abbreviations and transliteration
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 The Nicomachean Ethics in Hellenistic philosophy
  7. Chapter 2 The transformation of Aristotles ethics in Roman philosophy
  8. Chapter 3 Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus
  9. Chapter 4 St. Augustines appropriation and transformation of Aristotelian eudaimonia
  10. Chapter 5 The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean Ethics
  11. Chapter 6 Maimonides’ appropriation of Aristotle's ethics
  12. Chapter 7 The relation of prudence and synderesis to happiness in the medieval commentaries on Aristotle's ethics
  13. Chapter 8 Using Seneca to read Aristotle
  14. Chapter 9 Aristotles Ethics in the Renaissance
  15. Chapter 10 The end of ends? Aristotelian themes in early modern ethics
  16. Chapter 11 Affective conflict and virtue
  17. Chapter 12 Kant and Aristotle on ethics
  18. Chapter 13 The fall and rise of Aristotelian ethics in Anglo-American moral philosophy
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index

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