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xxviii, 799 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi and On Law and Justice. In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period.
Introduction / David Conan Wolfsdorf -- PART I. INDIVIDUALS AND TEXTS. 1. The Pythagorean Acusmata / Johan C. Thom -- 2. Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance / Shaul Tor -- 3. On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought / Mark A. Johnstone -- 4. Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles / John Palmer -- 5. The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement / Tazuko A. van Berkel -- 6. The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen / Kurt Lampe -- 7. Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies / Joel E. Mann -- 8. Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord / Mauro Bonazzi -- 9. The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates / David Conan Wolfsdorf -- 10. Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion / Richard Bett -- 11. The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera / Monte Ransome Johnson -- 12. The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants / Alex Gottesman -- 13. Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence: A Lost Defense of Democracy / Phillip Sidney Horky -- 14. On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi / David Conan Wolfsdorf -- 15. Antisthenes' Ethics / Susan Prince -- 16. Antisthenes and Allegoresis / Mikolaj Domaradzki -- 17. Aristippus of Cyrene / Voula Tsouna -- 18. Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics / David M. Johnson -- 19. Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues / Nicholas D. Smith -- 20. On Law and Justice Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum / Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson -- PART II. TOPICS AND FIELDS. 21. Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values / Joseph Skinner -- 22. Ethics in Early Greek Medicine / Paul Demont -- 23. The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought / Radcliffe Edmonds III -- 24. Friendship in Early Greek Ethics / Dimitri El Murr -- 25. Justice and the Afterlife / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson -- 26. Music and the Soul / Eleonora Rocconi -- 27. The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics / Christopher Rowe -- PART III. CODA. 28. Diogenes of Sinope / Will Desmond -- 29. Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention / Tim O'Keefe -- 30. Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics / Carl A. Huffman.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [713]-750) and indexes.