Foundations of Ancient Ethics / Grundlagen Der Antiken Ethik - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3899716299 ISBN 13: 9783899716290

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, 2014

Synopsis

This volume presents essays on Ancient ethics from Homer to Plotinus with a focus on the significance of Ancient ethical thinking for contemporary ethics. Adapting Kant's words, we might describe philosophers today as holding that meta-ethics without normative ethics is empty; normative ethics without meta-ethics is blind. One fascinating feature of Ancient ethics is its close connection between content and method, between normative ethics and meta-ethics. In connecting ethical, epistemological, and cosmological issues, Ancient ethical theories strive for an integrated understanding of normativity. The project of this volume is to capture some of the colours of the bright spectrum of ancient ethics. The goal of bundling them together is, ultimately, to shed better light on the issues of contemporary ethics. Topics: Classical Chinese Ethics, Indian Ethics, Homeric Ethics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Plotinus, Ancient and Modern Moral Psychology, Hybrid Theories of Normativity, The Unity of the Virtues, The Art of Life and Morality (Lebenskunst und Moral).

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About the Author

Dr. Jorg Hardy is lecturer at the Free University of Berlin and holds guest lectureships in the United States, Russia and China.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3899716299
• ISBN 13: 9783899716290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 498
• Editor: Hardy Jorg, Rudebusch George