Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521553121 ISBN 13 : 9780521553124

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant re-assessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics. Four pairs of essays compare and contrast Aristotle and Kant on deliberation and moral development (John McDowell and Barbara Herman), eudaimonism (T. H. Irwin and Stephen Engstrom), self-love and self-worth (Jennifer Whiting and Allen Wood), and practical reason and moral psychology (Julia Annas and Christine Korsgaard). The final pair of essays introduces the Stoics as an example of how the apparently antithetical views of Aristotle and the Stoics might be reconciled (John Cooper and J. B. Schneewind).

Revue de presse

'Importantly, old stereotypes, or conventional wisdom, about the differences between ancient and modern ethics, especially between Aristotle and Kant, are challenged, exposing possible unities (and historical influences) that tradition has overlooked. However, superficial similarities are also probed and sometimes shown to mask deep remaining differences. The papers call attention to, as well as represent, a quite remarkable contemporary revival of important philosophical/scholarly treatment of the history of ethics, and the authors are, without exception, major players in this movement.' Thomas E. Hill, Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521553121
• ISBN 13: 9780521553124
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Engstrom Stephen, Whiting Jennifer
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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