The reception of Aristotle's Ethics
By: edited by Jon Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521513883
Subjects: Ancient Ethics
Description: "Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Each essay focuses on a single philosopher, school of philosophers, or philosophical era. The accounts examine and compare Aristotle's views and those of his heirs and also offer a reception history of the ethics, dealing with matters such as the availability and circulation of Aristotle's texts during the periods in question. The resulting volume will be a valuable source of information and arguments for anyone working in the history of ethics."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Nicomachean ethics in Hellenistic philosophy: a hidden treasure? / Karen Margrethe Nielsen; title: The transformation of Aristotle's Ethics in Roman philosophy / Christopher Gill; title: Aristotelian ethics in Plotinus / Dominic J. O'Meara; title: St. Augustine's appropriation and transformation of Aristotelian eudaimonia / Michael W. Tkacz; title: The Arabic and Islamic reception of the Nicomachean ethics / Anna Akasoy; title: Maimonides' appropriation of Aristotle's ethics / Kenneth Seeskin; title: The relation of prudence and synderesis to happiness in the medieval commentaries on Aristotle's ethics / Anthony Celano; title: Using Seneca to read Aristotle: the curious methods of Buridan's ethics / Jack Zupko; title: Aristotle's ethics in the Renaissance / David A. Lines; title: The end of ends? : Aristotelian themes in early modern ethics / Donald Rutherford; title: Affective conflict and virtue: Hume's answer to Aristotle / Kate Abramson; title: Aristotle and Kant on ethics / Manfred Kuehn; title: The fall and rise of Aristotelian ethics in Anglo-American moral philosophy: 19th and 20th century / Jennifer Welchman..