| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Cambridge classical studies |
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Antiochus in Rome -- 'Old academic' history of philosophy -- Oikeiosis and the telos -- Self-love in the Antiochean-peripatetic account -- 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of Oikeiosis -- Oikeiosis towards theoretical virtue -- Social Oikeiosis -- The Antiochean conception of the happy life -- Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Antiochus, of Ascalon, approximately 130 B.C.-69 or 68 B.C.
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Antiochus, of Ascalon, approximately 130 B.C.-69 or 68 B.C. |
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Peripatetics.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
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Peripatetics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108359559 |
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1108359558 |
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