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Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107025443
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Author : Gerd Van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004117976
This volume concentrates on a hedonistic argument that enters the philosophical debate, when philosophers argue that what they present as the good life is the truly pleasurable life. The book investigates more precisely how this point was made by Plato and his successors.
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9004379509
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.
Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108485820
Explores Greek and Roman theories about the relationship of soul and body in the centuries after Aristotle.
Author : Paul van Riel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004321101
This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus. The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.
Author : Fiona Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192672916
Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology encompasses the study of those aspects of human psychology relevant to our moral lives—desire, emotion, ethical knowledge, practical moral reasoning, and moral imagination—and their role in apprehending or responding to sources of value. This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy, exploring central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools. Through a series of chapters and responses, these contributions challenge and develop interpretations of ancient views on topics from Socratic intellectualism to the nature of appetitive desires and their relation to goodness, from the role of pleasure and pain in virtue, to our capacities for memory, anticipation and choice and their role in practical action, to the question of the sufficiency or otherwise of the virtues for a flourishing human life.
Author : Kelly Arenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350080268
This book links Plato and Epicurus, two of the most prominent ethicists in the history of philosophy, exploring how Platonic material lays the conceptual groundwork for Epicurean hedonism. It argues that, despite their significant philosophical differences, Plato and Epicurus both conceptualise pleasure in terms of the health and harmony of the human body and soul. It turns to two crucial but underexplored sources for understanding Epicurean pleasure: Plato's treatment of psychological health and pleasure in the Republic, and his physiological account of bodily harmony, pleasure, and pain in the Philebus. Kelly Arenson shows first that, by means of his mildly hedonistic and sometimes overtly anti-hedonist approaches, Plato sets the agenda for future discussions in antiquity of the nature of pleasure and its role in the good life. She then sets Epicurus' hedonism against the backdrop of Plato's ontological and ethical assessments of pleasure, revealing a trend in antiquity to understand pleasure and pain in terms of the replenishment and maintenance of an organism's healthy functioning. Health and Hedonism in Plato and Epicurus will be of interest to anyone interested in the relationship between these two philosophers, ancient philosophy, and ethics.
Author : Jenny Bryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1316510042
Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
Author : Richard Davies
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1009321544
Mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus was a younger contemporary of Plato and an older contemporary of Aristotle, on both of whom he exerted some influence during his stays in Athens. This is perhaps most apparent with regard to his ethical doctrine that identifies the good as pleasure (hedonism). While Plato seems rather unsure how seriously to take this proposal, Aristotle provides the materials for reconstructing the battery of ingenious arguments that Eudoxus brought forward in its defence. Taken together in this Element, these arguments foreshadow almost everything that has been said in the Western tradition in favour of the positive value of pleasure, and, if taken aright, point in the direction of a hedonism that sets store by the cultivation of activities akin to those for which Eudoxus has been most renowned: mathematics and astronomy.
Author : Raphaëla Dubreuil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004681744
An orator turns to an actor for advice, citizens expect assemblies to unfold like dramas, and a theater-goer cries at a play thinking of his fallen enemy: no Life escapes the mention of theatrical imagery in Plutarch’s paralleled biographies. And yet this is the first book not only to examine Plutarch’s consistent and coherent use of this imagery but also to argue that it is systematically employed to describe, explore, and evaluate politics in action. The theater becomes Plutarch’s invitation for us to question and uncover key moments of Athenian, Spartan, and Roman history as it unfolds.