Author : Stephen Engstrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521624978
This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics.
Author : Stephen Philip Engstrom
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521553124
This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant re-assessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics. Four pairs of essays compare and contrast Aristotle and Kant on deliberation and moral development (John McDowell and Barbara Herman), eudaimonism (T. H. Irwin and Stephen Engstrom), self-love and self-worth (Jennifer Whiting and Allen Wood), and practical reason and moral psychology (Julia Annas and Christine Korsgaard). The final pair of essays introduces the Stoics as an example of how the apparently antithetical views of Aristotle and the Stoics might be reconciled (John Cooper and J. B. Schneewind).
Author : Jack Visnjic
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004446338
Where did the notion of 'moral duty' come from? In The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, Jack Visnjic argues that it was the Stoics who first developed a robust notion of duty as well as a deontological ethics.
Author : Joachim Aufderheide
Publisher : Mind Association Occasional
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198714017
The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are important differences in terms of content, there are also important similarities in terms of the structural features of Aristotle's and Kant's value theories. By carefully analysing Aristotle's and Kant's theories of the highest good, a team of experts in the field shed light on their respective ethical theories and highlight the richness, complexity, and fruitfulness of the notion of the highest good.
Author : Piotr Stankiewicz
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1622739442
This book is a manifesto of reformed Stoicism. It proposes a system of life which is bullet-proof, universal, viable and effective in every cosmic setting. It holds in every possible universe, under any government and within any economic system. We can be reformed Stoics no matter what we believe in. Reformed Stoicism is about enjoying and exercising our agency. In other words, it’s about the flow of making autonomous and right decisions, and about celebrating our ability to make them. With no reliance on nature, with the recalibration of metaphysical positions, with skepticism towards grand discourses and universal answers, with an emphasis on the usefulness instead of truthfulness of narratives, with no reference to the vanity argument, with criticism of both conservative and ascetic misinterpretations of Stoicism, with an overall softer and more empathic approach, we can no longer be defined by the generic term “Stoicism”. Our time, in short, calls for a fresh interpretation of Stoicism. It is time for a new generation of Stoics. Thus: reformed Stoicism.
Author : Paula Gottlieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052176176X
This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052151388X
A new collection of thirteen essays, covering the reception of Aristotle's ethics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Provides both a history of reception and conceptual analysis for each figure or school. For students of philosophy and of the history of ethics and ideas.
Author : F. H. Sandbach
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0359088120
'Not only one of the best but also the most comprehensive treatment of Stoicism written this century.' -""Times Literary Supplement "" Stoic philosophy had a profound effect on thought and conduct in the ancient world, and has continued to influence philosophers and thinkers from the Renaissance to the present day. Professor Sandbach, in this brilliant and original study, presents the main outlines of the system, concentrating in particular on the ethical teaching, historically the most important facet of the Stoic philosophy. The author traces the changes in doctrine and emphasis through the centuries, gives an account of individual thinkers and writers and describes the role played by adherents of the Stoic faith in contemporary society. The Stoics will be welcomed both by classicists and philosophers as well as by the general reader, as a lucid exposition of an important philosophy. ""Will prove lucid for the uninitiated and stimulating for the specialist.' -""Classical Review ""
Author : Nancy Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199760411
Stoic Warriors explores the relationship between soldiers and Stoic philosophy, exploring what Stoicism actually is, the role it plays in the character of the military (both ancient and modern), and its powerful value as a philosophy of life. Marshalling anecdotes from military history--ranging from ancient Greek wars to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq--Sherman illuminates the military mind and uses it as a window on the virtues of the Stoic philosophy. Indeed this is a perceptive investigation of what makes Stoicism so compelling not only as a guiding principle for the military, but as a philosophy for anyone facing the hardships of life.
Author : Jeanine Grenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521846813
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