Description: Reason and Emotion : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory, Paperback by Cooper, John M., ISBN 069105875X, ISBN-13 9780691058757, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond.
For the ancient philosophers, Cooper shows here, morality was "good character" and what that entailed: good judgment, sensitivity, openness, reflectiveness, and a secure and correct sense of who one was and how one stood in relation to others and the surrounding world. Ethical theory was about the best way to be rather than any principles for what to do in particular circumstances or in relation to recurrent temptations. Moral psychology was the study of the psychological conditions required for good character--the sorts of desires, the attitudes to self and others, the states of mind and feeling, the kinds of knowledge and insight.
Together these papers illustrate brilliantly how, by studying the arguments of the Greek philosophers in their diverse theories about the best human life and its psychological underpinnings, we can expand our own moral understanding and imagination and enrich our own moral thought. The collection will be crucial reading for anyone interested in classical philosophy and what it can contribute to reflection on contemporary questions about ethics and human life.
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Book Title: Reason and Emotion : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethic
Number of Pages: 605 Pages
Publication Name: Reason and Emotion : Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Item Weight: 32 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: John M. Cooper
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
