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Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics

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ISBN-10: 0199275424

ISBN-13: 9780199275427

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nicholas White

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Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views, especially those prevalent since Kant. Since the eighteenth century, and indeed since before Hegel, moral philosophers wishing to oppose the dualism of rationality-cum-morality vs. inclination, especially as it is manifested in Kant, have looked to Greek thought for an alternative conception of ethical norms and the good life. As a result, Greek ethics,particularly in the so-called Classical period of the fourth century BCE, has for more than two centuries been standardly thought to be fundamentally eudaimonist, and to have the character of what is nowadays normally…    
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List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 388
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Introduction
The Idea of Hellenic Harmony
Motivations of Philosophical Historiography
Historiographical Themes: Modern Fragmentation and Ancient Harmony
More Recent Responses among Classicists to the Theme of Hellenic Harmony
Some Philosophers' Responses to Greek Ethics
The Kantian Response
Schiller's Reaction
The Hegelian Response
Nietzsche and his Influence
Deliberative Conflict
The Kantian and Hegelian Responses Early in the Twentieth Century
Moore's Non-Eudaimonist Reading of Plato
More Recent Philosophical Views of Greek Ethics
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Morality
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: The Ethics of Virtue
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Contingency
Aims and Conflicts
Imperatives in Greek Ethics
The Rejection of Imperativity
The Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Virtue
The Nostalgic Flight from Imperativity
Imperatives, Attractives, and Repulsives
Uses of Imperativity in Greek Literature
The Alleged 'Transition' to Roman Christianity: Imperativity in Greek Ethics after Aristotle
Imperativity in Aristotle
Imperativity in Plato
Imperatives in Ethics and their Philosophical Examination
The City-State in Greek Ethics
The Hegelian Conception of the Polis
Some Assumptions of the Hegelian Account
Norms Independent of the Polis
The Golden Rule
On Some Sources of Confusion about Greek Norms
The Kosmos
Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict through the Time of Plato
Homogeneity and Variety in Classical Greek Ethics
Before Plato's Time
Plato's Milieu: Thrasymachus
Plato's Milieu: Socrates
Some Platonic Passages outside the Republic
The Republic: Plato's Project
The Republic: The Rulers' Choice
Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict in Aristotle
The Periods of Greek Ethics
Aristotle, the Harmonizing Eudaimonist
The Kantian and Hegelian Interpretations of Aristotle
The Need for a Non-Harmonizing Interpretation
The Question of Conflict within Ethical Virtue
Theoria
Philia
Politics, Biology, and Cosmology
Eudaimonism without Harmony
Conflict and Individual Good in Hellenistic Ethics
The Traditional Picture of Hellenistic Ethics
Systematic Monism in Hellenistic Ethics
Epicureanism
The Stoics
Towards an Understanding of the History of Greek Ethics
On Some Ideas about Differences between Ancient and Modern Ethics
Greek Eudaimonism
Self-Referential, Partly Self-Referential, and Universal Aims
Eudaimonism and Egoism
Eudaimonism and Harmony
Greek Ethics: Development and Variety
Bibliography
Index