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. INDICE: Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikei?sis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikei?sis; 6. Oikei?sis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikei?sis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.
- ISBN: 978-1-108-42058-7
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 234
- Fecha Publicación: 07/03/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés