Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics,9780198250593

Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics

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ISBN13: 9780198250593
ISBN10: 0198250592
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-15
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

White opposes the long-standing view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views. He examines the ways in which Greek ethics has been interpreted since the 18th century, and traces the history in Greek ethical thought of the idea of conflict among human aims, in particular the conflict between conformity to ethical standards and one's own happiness.

Author Biography


Nicholas White is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
The Idea of Hellenic Harmony
1(46)
Motivations of Philosophical Historiography
1(2)
Historiographical Themes: Modern Fragmentation and Ancient Harmony
3(13)
More Recent Responses among Classicists to the Theme of Hellenic Harmony
16(4)
Some Philosophers' Responses to Greek Ethics
20(2)
The Kantian Response
22(5)
Schiller's Reaction
27(2)
The Hegelian Response
29(14)
Nietzsche and his Influence
43(4)
Deliberative Conflict
47(35)
The Kantian and Hegelian Responses Early in the Twentieth Century
47(7)
Moore's Non-Eudaimonist Reading of Plato
54(1)
More Recent Philosophical Views of Greek Ethics
55(6)
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Morality
61(5)
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: The Ethics of Virtue
66(3)
The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Contingency
69(4)
Aims and Conflicts
73(9)
Imperatives in Greek Ethics
82(42)
The Rejection of Imperativity
82(8)
The Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Virtue
90(4)
The Nostalgic Flight from Imperativity
94(1)
Imperatives, Attractives, and Repulsives
95(5)
Uses of Imperativity in Greek Literature
100(4)
The Alleged `Transition' to Roman Christianity: Imperativity in Greek Ethics after Aristotle
104(4)
Imperativity in Aristotle
108(12)
Imperativity in Plato
120(2)
Imperatives in Ethics and their Philosophical Examination
122(2)
The City-State in Greek Ethics
124(31)
The Hegelian Conception of the Polis
124(6)
Some Assumptions of the Hegelian Account
130(4)
Norms Independent of the Polis
134(9)
The Golden Rule
143(3)
On Some Sources of Confusion about Greek Norms
146(2)
The Kosmos
148(7)
Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict through the Time of Plato
155(60)
Homogeneity and Variety in Classical Greek Ethics
155(1)
Before Plato's Time
156(10)
Plato's Milieu: Thrasymachus
166(7)
Plato's Milieu: Socrates
173(8)
Some Platonic Passages outside the Republic
181(8)
The Republic: Plato's Project
189(9)
The Republic: The Rulers' Choice
198(17)
Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict in Aristotle
215(75)
The Periods of Greek Ethics
215(7)
Aristotle, the Harmonizing Eudaimonist
222(4)
The Kantian and Hegelian Interpretations of Aristotle
226(5)
The Need for a Non-Harmonizing Interpretation
231(7)
The Question of Conflict within Ethical Virtue
238(6)
Theoria
244(20)
Philia
264(10)
Politics, Biology, and Cosmology
274(6)
Eudaimonism without Harmon
280(10)
Conflict and Individual Good in Hellenistic Ethics
290(37)
The Traditional Picture of Hellenistic Ethics
290(4)
Systematic Monism in Hellenistic Ethics
294(7)
Epicureanism
301(10)
The Stoics
311(16)
Towards an Understanding of the History of Greek Ethics
327(20)
On Some Ideas about Differences between Ancient and Modern Ethics
327(3)
Greek Eudaimonism
330(2)
Self-Referential, Partly Self-Referential, and Universal Aims
332(8)
Eudaimonism and Egoism
340(1)
Eudaimonism and Harmony
341(2)
Greek Ethics: Development and Variety
343(4)
Bibliography 347(18)
Index 365

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