From Protagoras to Aristotle : Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy

by: Segvic, H.

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 From Protagoras to Aristotle
Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy
Heda Segvic
Edited by: Myles Burnyeat
With contributions by: Charles Brittain

About this book
This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the intellectual influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas. Segvic had been working for some time on a monograph on practical knowledge that would interpret Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. The essays collected here are those on which her reputation rests, including some that were intended to form the backbone of her projected monograph. The papers range from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic's idea that both Socrates' and Aristotle's universalism and objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to Protagorean relativism. The book represents the considerable achievements of one of the most talented scholars of ancient philosophy of her generation.

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE
One. Protagoras? Political Art

Two. Homer in Plato?S Protagoras

Three. No One Errs Willingly: The Meaning of Socratic Intellectualism

PART TWO
Four. Aristotle on the Varieties of Goodness

Five. Aristotle?s Metaphysics of Action

Six. Deliberation and Choice in Aristotle

PART THREE
Seven. Review of Roger Crisp, Translation of Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Eight. Two or Three Things We Know about Socrates

Indices

From Protagoras to Aristotle : Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy

by: Segvic, H.

• ISBN-13: 9780691131238 / 978-0-691-13123-8
• ISBN-03: 0691131236 / 0-691-13123-6
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2009

Price: 44,00 EURO

1 copy in stock