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Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy

Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy


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Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods - from Hippocratic medical theory and Plato's epistemology and moral philosophy, to Aristotle's physics and metaphysics, academic scepticism, and the cosmology, moral psychology, and ethical theory of the ancient Stoics. Almost half of the pieces appear here for the first time or are presented in newly expanded, extensively revised versions. Many stand at the cutting edge of research into ancient ethics and moral psychology. Other chapters, dating from as far back as 1970, are classics of philosophical scholarship on antiquity that continue to play a prominent role in current teaching and scholarship in the field. All of the chapters are distinctive for the way that, whatever the particular topic being pursued, they attempt to understand the ancient philosophers' views in philosophical terms drawn from the ancient philosophical tradition itself (rather than from contemporary philosophy).Through engaging creatively and philosophically with the ancient texts, these essays aim to make ancient philosophical perspectives freshly available to contemporary philosophers and philosophy students, in all their fascinating inventiveness, originality, and deep philosophical merit. This book will be treasured by philosophers, classicists, students of philosophy and classics, those in other disciplines with an interest in ancient philosophy, and anyone who seeks to understand philosophy in philosophical terms.



Table of Contents:
Preface vii Acknowledgments ix KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER 1: Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine 3 CHAPTER 2: Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186) 43 CHAPTER 3: Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the Independence of Oratory from Philosophy 65 CHAPTER 4: Arcesilaus: Socratic and Skeptic 81 NATURE CHAPTER 5: Aristotle on Natural Teleology 107 CHAPTER 6: Hypothetical Necessity 130 CHAPTER 7: Two Notes on Aristotle on Mixture 148 CHAPTER 8: Metaphysics in Aristotle's Embryology 174 CHAPTER 9: Stoic Autonomy 204 THE GOOD CHAPTER 10: Two Theories of Justice 247 CHAPTER 11: Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-) Sufficiency" 270 CHAPTER 12: Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Seneca 309 CHAPTER 13: Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Marcus Aurelius 335 Bibliography 369 Index of Passages 381 General Index 397

About the Author :

John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of Reason and Emotion (Princeton) and Reason and Human Good in Aristotle.



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"The marks of a true multi-culturalism hidden in the methods of great classicism are present in John M. Cooper's Knowledge, Nature, and the Good... Works of loving scholarship such as this ... develop our ability to appreciate the wondrous otherness of Greek culture--of, in fact, any culture."--Arthur J. Spring, Bridges


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691117249
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Sub Title: Essays on Ancient Philosophy
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691117241
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 698 gr


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