Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy by Margaret Hampson

Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy by Margaret Hampson

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology encompasses the study of those aspects of human psychology relevant to our moral lives--desire, emotion, ethical knowledge, practical moral reasoning, and moral imagination--and their role in apprehending or responding to sources of value. This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy, exploring central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools. Through a series of chapters and responses, these contributions challenge and develop interpretations of ancient views on topics from Socratic intellectualism to the nature of appetitive desires and their relation to goodness, from the role of pleasure and pain in virtue, to our capacities for memory, anticipation and choice and their role in practical action, to the question of the sufficiency or otherwise of the virtues for a flourishing human life.

Fiona Leigh is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Keeling Centre in Ancient Philosophy at UCL. From 2007 to 2009, she held a post-doctoral position in Philosophy at King's College London and in 2009 joined the Department of Philosophy at UCL. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at Monash University and has published papers on Plato and in ancient philosophy, and edited and co-edited several volumes in ancient philosophy. Margaret Hampson is a lecturer in ancient philosophy at the University of St Andrews. From 2019 to 2021, she held an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, before which she was a Research Associate at the Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy, UCL. She completed her PhD at University College London and has published papers on Aristotle's ethics and moral psychology.

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ISBN 13	9780192858108
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Title	Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy
Author	Margaret Hampson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press, Usa
Year published	2023-03-22
Number of pages	240
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