Pleasure in ancient Greek philosophy /
"The Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy that remain of philosophical interest today. In this volume Professor Wolfsdorf undertakes the first exploration of ancient...
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Cambridge, [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Key themes in ancient philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pleasure in early Greek ethics
- 3. Pleasure in the early physical tradition
- 4. Plato on pleasure and restoration
- 5. Plato on true, untrue and false pleasures
- 6. Aristotle on pleasure and activation
- 7. Epicurus and the Cyrenaics on katastematic and kinetic pleasures
- 8. The Old Stoics on pleasure as passion
- 9. Contemporary conceptions of pleasure
- 10. Ancient and contemporary conceptions of pleasure.