Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics
Part of Cambridge Classical Studies
- Author: Georgia Tsouni, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Date Published: March 2019
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420587
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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.
Read more- Presents the first systematic analysis of Antiochus' ethics (Cicero's On Ends 5) in terms of its Peripatetic content
- Addresses Antiochus' hermeneutical assumptions regarding the unity of the 'Old Academic' tradition and places them in the cultural context of the late Republic
- Highlights the way Aristotelian/Peripatetic ideas developed under the influence of a Stoic philosophical agenda and terminology
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'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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- Date Published: March 2019
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420587
- length: 234 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 144 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I:
1. Antiochus in Rome
2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy
Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy':
3. Oikeiōsis and the telos
4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account
5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiōsis
6. Oikeiōsis towards theoretical virtue
7. Social oikeiōsis
8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life
9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account
Epilogue.
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