Encyclopedia of Classical PhilosophyDonald J. Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, Phillip Mitsis The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work presents 270 articles on major and minor figures and on topics of importance to the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. The articles present not only succinct historical accounts of their subject matter, but they introduce readers to issues of interpretation and debate in the contemporary scholarly study of the philosophy of the Classical period. Scholars, students, and interested lay persons will find this volume useful in gaining a comprehensive view of the field. The contributors, representing three continents, are themselves leading scholars of international stature. |
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... ethics as a distinct branch of philosophy , one closely linked with * politics ; his way of conceiving ethical enquiry is widely followed in later ancient thought . Although the ethical treatises ( principally , Eudemian Ethics and ...
... Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy , Cambridge , 1986 ; Prior , W. J. , Virtue and Knowledge : An Introduction to Greek Ethics , London , 1991 ; Williams , B. , Shame and Necessity , Berkeley , 1993. On particular topics : Annas , J ...
... ethics . His ethics is the first major reform of Stoic ethics . He was the first in a series of Stoics to adapt Stoic ethics to the concerns of the Roman ruling class . While adhering to the system of moral develop- ment proposed by his ...
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