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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 February 2019
      07 March 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108354790
      9781108420587
      9781108412612
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108354790
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 234 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.302kg, 246 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni challenges previous characterisations of Antiochus' philosophical project as 'eclectic' and shows how his reconstruction of the ethics of the 'Old Academy' demonstrates a careful attempt to update the ancient heritage, and predominantly the views of Aristotle and the Peripatos, in the light of contemporary Stoic-led debates. This results in both a hermeneutically complex and a philosophically exciting reading of the old tradition. A case in point is the way Antiochus grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis), thus offering a naturalistic version of Aristotelian ethics.

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    'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus’ distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.'

    John Dillon Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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