Antiochus and peripatetic ethics /

Antiochus and peripatetic ethics /

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Author / Creator:	Tsouni, Georgia, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge classical studies Cambridge classical studies.
Subject:	Antiochus, -- of Ascalon, -- approximately 130 B.C.-69 or 68 B.C. Antiochus, -- of Ascalon, -- approximately 130 B.C.-69 or 68 B.C. Peripatetics. Philosophy, Ancient. Peripatetics. Philosophy, Ancient.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12008001

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ISBN:	9781108420587 1108420583 9781108359559
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni challenges previous characterisations of Antiochus' philosophical project as 'eclectic' and shows how his reconstruction of the ethics of the 'Old Academy' demonstrates a careful attempt to update the ancient heritage, and predominantly the views of Aristotle and the Peripatos, in the light of contemporary Stoic-led debates. This results in both a hermeneutically complex and a philosophically exciting reading of the old tradition. A case in point is the way Antiochus grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis), thus offering a naturalistic version of Aristotelian ethics"--
Other form:	Ebook version : 9781108359559

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