| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; v. 120 |
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Philosophia antiqua ; v. 120.
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| Contents |
Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle / Robert Wardy -- Particular virtues in the Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle / Carlo Natali -- What's a particular, and what makes it so? : some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle / Verity Harte -- Particulars, selves, and individuals in Stoic philosophy / Christopher Gill -- On Christopher Gill on "Particulars, selves, and individuals in Stoic philosophy" / Angela Hobbs -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on particulars and the Stoic criterion of identity / Marwan Rashed |
| Summary |
Ancient Greek philosophy has been criticised, for example by the late Bernard Williams, for emphasising the universal at the expense of the particular. Six leading scholars consider what the Greeks themselves, from Plato to the period of the Roman Empire, had to say on this issue in the contexts of ethics, psychology, metaphysics and cosmology. Ancient views are compared with modern ones, and the influence of the former on the latter is considered |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Aristotle -- Congresses
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Aristotle |
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Aristoteles. |
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Individuation (Philosophy) -- History -- Congresses
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Ethics, Ancient -- Congresses
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Stoics -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Ethics, Ancient
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Individuation (Philosophy)
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Stoics
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Der Einzelne
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Einzelheit Philosophie
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Stoizismus
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharples, R. W., editor
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| ISBN |
9789004193246 |
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9004193243 |
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