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Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics By Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics by Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)


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Summary

Analyses afresh the naturalistic version of Peripatetic ethics preserved in Cicero's On Ends 5, our major source for the ethical system of the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Shows how he grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis).

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics Summary

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics by Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

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.

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics Reviews

'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

Georgia Tsouni is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer (Assistentin) to the Chair of History of Philosophy at the Universitat Bern, Switzerland. She has published extensively on Aristotelian/Peripatetic and Stoic ethical and political philosophy, including a new edition and translation of Didymus' Summary of Peripatetic Ethics, which survives in the Byzantine anthology of Stobaeus.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikeiosis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiosis; 6. Oikeiosis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikeiosis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.

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NPB9781108412612
9781108412612
1108412610
Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics by Georgia Tsouni (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2023-04-06
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