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Document Type: | Book |
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C C W Taylor |
ISBN: | 9780199226399 0199226393 |
OCLC Number: | 874403075 |
Description: | 368 s |
Contents: | Introduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Pleasure, Knowledge and Sensation in Democritus (1967); 2. 'All Perceptions Are True' (1980); 3. Plat Hare and Davidson on Akrasia (1980); 4. The End of the Euthyphro (1982); 5. The Arguments in the Phaedo Concerning the Thesis That the Soul Is a Harmonia (1983); 6. Plato and Aristotle on the Criterion of Real Pleasures (1983); 7. Urmson on Aristotle on Pleasure (1988); 8. Popular Morality and Unpopular Philosophy (1990); 9. Socratic Ethics (1992); 10. Platonic Ethics (1998); 11. The Atomists (1999); 12. Aristotle on the Practical Intellect (2003); 13. Plat on Rationality and Happiness (2003); 14. Pleasure: Aristotle's Response to Plato (2003); 15. The Hedonism of the Protagoras Reconsidered (2003); 16. Wisdom and Courage in the Protagoras and the Nicomachean Ethics (2004) 17. Socrates (2005); 18. Democritus and Lucretius on Death and Dying (2007); 1 Socrates Under the Severans (2007); General Bibliography; Publications of C.C W. Taylor; Index of Passages Cited; General Index |
Abstract:
C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his writings on a set of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought.
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This is a very fine volume... this collection of papers will be welcomed by all who work in ancient philosophy or are interested in the philosophical issues in focus in Taylor's negotiation of the terrain. * Verity Harte, POLIS * Read more...
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