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Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such...
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| Summary: | Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Cover -- Early Greek Ethics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Abstracts and Contributor Information -- 1. Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen" -- 7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants" -- 13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -- 14. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi" -- 15. Susan Prince, "Antisthenes' Ethics" -- 16. Mikolaj Domaradzki, "Antisthenes and Allegoresis" -- 17. Voula Tsouna, "Aristippus of Cyrene" -- 18. David M. Johnson, "Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics" -- 19. Nicholas D. Smith, "Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues" -- 20. Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson, "On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" -- 21. Joseph Skinner, "Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values" -- 22. Paul Demont, "Ethics in Early Greek Medicine" -- 23. Radcliffe Edmonds, "The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 24. Dimitri El Murr, "Friendship in Early Greek Ethics" -- 25. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson, "Justice and the Afterlife" -- 26. Eleonora Rocconi, "Music and the Soul" -- 27. Christopher Rowe, "The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics" -- 28. Will Desmond, "Diogenes of Sinope" -- 29. Tim O'Keefe, "Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention" -- 30. Carl A. Huffman, "Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Individuals and Texts -- 1 The Pythagorean Acusmata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitional Sayings -- 3. Religion, Cult, and the Sacred -- 4. Dietary Taboos -- 5. Virtues and Superstitions -- 6. The Ethics of the Acusmata -- Bibliography -- 2 Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Xenophanes on Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Epistemic Arrogance and Ethical Failure -- 4. Between Arrogance and Self-Affirmation -- 5. Mockeries and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Soul -- 3. Human Understanding -- 4. God and Wisdom -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles -- Bibliography -- 5 The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem with Fragments -- 1.2. The Fragment and its Oldest Extant Exegesis -- 2. Judging Man: Ethical Relativism -- 2.1. "Whatever the polis decides" -- 2.2. Human Measure versus Human Condition -- 3. Measuring Man: An Alternative Ethical Reading -- 3.1. Due Measures from a Pre-Protagorean Perspective -- 3.2. Due Measures in Protagorean Allusions -- 4. Monetary Man: An Undercurrent in the Biographical Tradition -- 4.1. "The Customer is King" -- 4.2. "The Measure of All Things Useful" -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6 The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen -- 1. Gorgias' Life and Works -- 2. Ethics and Metaethics: Funeral Oration -- 3. The Metaphysics of Judgment: On Nature -- 4. The Dramatics of Judgment: Palamedes -- 5. The Psychodynamics of Judgment: Helen -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies -- 1. Projectiles of Pollution -- 2. Two Tetralogies -- 3. The Third Tetralogy: An Analysis -- 4. The Implications for Material Miasma -- Bibliography -- 8 Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Truth -- 3. Concord -- 4. Self-Interest and Pleasure in Truth and Concord -- 5. Concluding Remarks on Antiphon's Political Ideas (and on His Identity) -- Bibliography -- 9 The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates -- 1. The Socratic Problem -- 2. Ethics and the Scope of Socrates' Philosophy -- 3. Socrates' Conception of His Philosophy -- 4. Eudaimonism -- 5. Psychē and Knowledge -- 6. Technē, Sophia, Epistēmē -- 7. Method -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation -- 3. Heracles' Choice -- 4. Language -- 5. Religion -- Bibliography -- 11 The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence for Democritus' ethical works -- 3. Ethics in the Form of Maxims -- 4. Democritus' Use of Maxims -- 5. Democritus, Peri euthumiēs -- 6. Social-Political dimensions of Democritus' ethics -- 7. Democritus' Conception of Autonomy -- 8. Democritus' Eudaimonistic and Therapeutic Ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Works of Critias -- 4. Debating Critias, debating aristocratic sōphrosynē | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Bibliography -- 13 Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence(Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of Preservation: Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy (c.300 CE) -- 3. Context of Production: Social Contract Theoryin the Late Fifth Century BCE (?) -- 4. Anonymus Iamblichi's On Excellence (Περὶ ἀρετῆς): A Discussion of the Fragments -- 4.1. Fragments 1-2: Excellence and Reputation -- 4.2. Fragments 3-5: Excellence, Human Psychology, and Society -- 4.3. Fragments 6-8: Law, Justice, and the "Superman" -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14 On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi -- 1. Orientation to the Text -- 2. The Question of the Unity of T -- 3.1. Opening Sentences and Connecting Particles -- 3.2. The Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.3. The Relation between the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.4. Conclusion to the Functional Unity of the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 4. The Topical Unity of Sections 1-3 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Topical and Functional Relation between sections 1-3 and Sections 4-5 -- 5.2. The Topical Relation between Sections 1-3 and Section 4 -- 5.3 The Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and 5 -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Τὸ Phrases -- 5.3.3 Two Interpretations of the Identity and Differentiating Theses -- 5.3.4 The Central Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 4 -- 5.3.5 The Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 5 -- 5.3.6 Conclusion to the Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and Section 5 -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX 1: The Manuscript Tradition -- APPENDIX 2: Sections of Marcianus Gr. 262 -- 15 Antisthenes' Ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pleasure versus Toil: Antisthenes in the Doxographical Reception -- 3. The Fortress of Reason and the Rejection of Conventional Norms | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4. Antisthenes in his Own Words -- 5. The Virtue of Characters: The Forensic Speeches -- 6. Interpretations of the Homeric Characters -- 7. Antisthenes as Xenophon's Character -- 8. Cyrus and Heracles -- 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16 Antisthenes and Allegoresis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Dubious Testimonies -- 3. The Most Attractive Candidates -- 4. The Less Attractive Candidates -- 5. The Least Attractive Candidates -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 17 Aristippus of Cyrene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristippus on Pleasure -- 3. Aristippus as a Socratic -- 4. The Reception of Aristippus as an Ethical Hedonist -- Bibliography -- 18 Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics -- 1. Works and Life -- 2. Xenophon's Models -- 3. Self-Mastery -- 4. Piety, Reciprocity, and Friendship -- 5. Ends -- 6. Endings -- Bibliography -- 19 Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. "The Socrates Problem" -- 2. Pragmatism -- 3. Eudaimonism -- 4. Egoism? -- 5. Virtue and the Virtues -- 6. Virtue and Happiness -- 7. The Necessity of Virtue -- 8. Going Wrong -- Bibliography -- 20 On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Authorship of On Law and Justice -- 3. Analysis of the Fragments of On Law and Justice -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Topics and Fields -- 21 Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Ethnography -- 3. Ethnography and the Greeks -- 4. The Relationship between Ethnography and Anthropology -- 5. Greek Ethnography and Ethical Inquiry -- 6. Ethics and Ethnography in Herodotus and Elsewhere -- Bibliography -- 22 Ethics in Early Greek Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Body, Character, and Emotions -- 3. Medical Ethics -- Bibliography -- 23 The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1. Introduction: Did the Greeks have an Ethical Idea of Life after Death? | |
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| contents | Cover -- Early Greek Ethics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Abstracts and Contributor Information -- 1. Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen" -- 7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants" -- 13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -- 14. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi" -- 15. Susan Prince, "Antisthenes' Ethics" -- 16. Mikolaj Domaradzki, "Antisthenes and Allegoresis" -- 17. Voula Tsouna, "Aristippus of Cyrene" -- 18. David M. Johnson, "Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics" -- 19. Nicholas D. Smith, "Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues" -- 20. Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson, "On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" -- 21. Joseph Skinner, "Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values" -- 22. Paul Demont, "Ethics in Early Greek Medicine" -- 23. Radcliffe Edmonds, "The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought" 24. Dimitri El Murr, "Friendship in Early Greek Ethics" -- 25. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson, "Justice and the Afterlife" -- 26. Eleonora Rocconi, "Music and the Soul" -- 27. Christopher Rowe, "The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics" -- 28. Will Desmond, "Diogenes of Sinope" -- 29. Tim O'Keefe, "Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention" -- 30. Carl A. Huffman, "Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Individuals and Texts -- 1 The Pythagorean Acusmata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitional Sayings -- 3. Religion, Cult, and the Sacred -- 4. Dietary Taboos -- 5. Virtues and Superstitions -- 6. The Ethics of the Acusmata -- Bibliography -- 2 Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Xenophanes on Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Epistemic Arrogance and Ethical Failure -- 4. Between Arrogance and Self-Affirmation -- 5. Mockeries and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Soul -- 3. Human Understanding -- 4. God and Wisdom -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles -- Bibliography -- 5 The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem with Fragments -- 1.2. The Fragment and its Oldest Extant Exegesis -- 2. Judging Man: Ethical Relativism -- 2.1. "Whatever the polis decides" -- 2.2. Human Measure versus Human Condition -- 3. Measuring Man: An Alternative Ethical Reading -- 3.1. Due Measures from a Pre-Protagorean Perspective -- 3.2. Due Measures in Protagorean Allusions -- 4. Monetary Man: An Undercurrent in the Biographical Tradition -- 4.1. "The Customer is King" -- 4.2. "The Measure of All Things Useful" -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography 6 The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen -- 1. Gorgias' Life and Works -- 2. Ethics and Metaethics: Funeral Oration -- 3. The Metaphysics of Judgment: On Nature -- 4. The Dramatics of Judgment: Palamedes -- 5. The Psychodynamics of Judgment: Helen -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies -- 1. Projectiles of Pollution -- 2. Two Tetralogies -- 3. The Third Tetralogy: An Analysis -- 4. The Implications for Material Miasma -- Bibliography -- 8 Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Truth -- 3. Concord -- 4. Self-Interest and Pleasure in Truth and Concord -- 5. Concluding Remarks on Antiphon's Political Ideas (and on His Identity) -- Bibliography -- 9 The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates -- 1. The Socratic Problem -- 2. Ethics and the Scope of Socrates' Philosophy -- 3. Socrates' Conception of His Philosophy -- 4. Eudaimonism -- 5. Psychē and Knowledge -- 6. Technē, Sophia, Epistēmē -- 7. Method -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation -- 3. Heracles' Choice -- 4. Language -- 5. Religion -- Bibliography -- 11 The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence for Democritus' ethical works -- 3. Ethics in the Form of Maxims -- 4. Democritus' Use of Maxims -- 5. Democritus, Peri euthumiēs -- 6. Social-Political dimensions of Democritus' ethics -- 7. Democritus' Conception of Autonomy -- 8. Democritus' Eudaimonistic and Therapeutic Ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Works of Critias -- 4. Debating Critias, debating aristocratic sōphrosynē Bibliography -- 13 Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence(Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of Preservation: Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy (c.300 CE) -- 3. Context of Production: Social Contract Theoryin the Late Fifth Century BCE (?) -- 4. Anonymus Iamblichi's On Excellence (Περὶ ἀρετῆς): A Discussion of the Fragments -- 4.1. Fragments 1-2: Excellence and Reputation -- 4.2. Fragments 3-5: Excellence, Human Psychology, and Society -- 4.3. Fragments 6-8: Law, Justice, and the "Superman" -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14 On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi -- 1. Orientation to the Text -- 2. The Question of the Unity of T -- 3.1. Opening Sentences and Connecting Particles -- 3.2. The Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.3. The Relation between the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.4. Conclusion to the Functional Unity of the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 4. The Topical Unity of Sections 1-3 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Topical and Functional Relation between sections 1-3 and Sections 4-5 -- 5.2. The Topical Relation between Sections 1-3 and Section 4 -- 5.3 The Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and 5 -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Τὸ Phrases -- 5.3.3 Two Interpretations of the Identity and Differentiating Theses -- 5.3.4 The Central Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 4 -- 5.3.5 The Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 5 -- 5.3.6 Conclusion to the Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and Section 5 -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX 1: The Manuscript Tradition -- APPENDIX 2: Sections of Marcianus Gr. 262 -- 15 Antisthenes' Ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pleasure versus Toil: Antisthenes in the Doxographical Reception -- 3. The Fortress of Reason and the Rejection of Conventional Norms 4. Antisthenes in his Own Words -- 5. The Virtue of Characters: The Forensic Speeches -- 6. Interpretations of the Homeric Characters -- 7. Antisthenes as Xenophon's Character -- 8. Cyrus and Heracles -- 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16 Antisthenes and Allegoresis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Dubious Testimonies -- 3. The Most Attractive Candidates -- 4. The Less Attractive Candidates -- 5. The Least Attractive Candidates -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 17 Aristippus of Cyrene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristippus on Pleasure -- 3. Aristippus as a Socratic -- 4. The Reception of Aristippus as an Ethical Hedonist -- Bibliography -- 18 Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics -- 1. Works and Life -- 2. Xenophon's Models -- 3. Self-Mastery -- 4. Piety, Reciprocity, and Friendship -- 5. Ends -- 6. Endings -- Bibliography -- 19 Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. "The Socrates Problem" -- 2. Pragmatism -- 3. Eudaimonism -- 4. Egoism? -- 5. Virtue and the Virtues -- 6. Virtue and Happiness -- 7. The Necessity of Virtue -- 8. Going Wrong -- Bibliography -- 20 On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Authorship of On Law and Justice -- 3. Analysis of the Fragments of On Law and Justice -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Topics and Fields -- 21 Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Ethnography -- 3. Ethnography and the Greeks -- 4. The Relationship between Ethnography and Anthropology -- 5. Greek Ethnography and Ethical Inquiry -- 6. Ethics and Ethnography in Herodotus and Elsewhere -- Bibliography -- 22 Ethics in Early Greek Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Body, Character, and Emotions -- 3. Medical Ethics -- Bibliography -- 23 The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought 1. Introduction: Did the Greeks have an Ethical Idea of Life after Death? |
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Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen" -- 7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants" -- 13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -- 14. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi" -- 15. Susan Prince, "Antisthenes' Ethics" -- 16. Mikolaj Domaradzki, "Antisthenes and Allegoresis" -- 17. Voula Tsouna, "Aristippus of Cyrene" -- 18. David M. Johnson, "Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics" -- 19. Nicholas D. Smith, "Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues" -- 20. Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson, "On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" -- 21. Joseph Skinner, "Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values" -- 22. Paul Demont, "Ethics in Early Greek Medicine" -- 23. Radcliffe Edmonds, "The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought"</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">24. Dimitri El Murr, "Friendship in Early Greek Ethics" -- 25. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson, "Justice and the Afterlife" -- 26. Eleonora Rocconi, "Music and the Soul" -- 27. Christopher Rowe, "The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics" -- 28. Will Desmond, "Diogenes of Sinope" -- 29. Tim O'Keefe, "Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention" -- 30. Carl A. Huffman, "Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Individuals and Texts -- 1 The Pythagorean Acusmata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitional Sayings -- 3. Religion, Cult, and the Sacred -- 4. Dietary Taboos -- 5. Virtues and Superstitions -- 6. The Ethics of the Acusmata -- Bibliography -- 2 Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Xenophanes on Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Epistemic Arrogance and Ethical Failure -- 4. Between Arrogance and Self-Affirmation -- 5. Mockeries and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Soul -- 3. Human Understanding -- 4. God and Wisdom -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles -- Bibliography -- 5 The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem with Fragments -- 1.2. The Fragment and its Oldest Extant Exegesis -- 2. Judging Man: Ethical Relativism -- 2.1. "Whatever the polis decides" -- 2.2. Human Measure versus Human Condition -- 3. Measuring Man: An Alternative Ethical Reading -- 3.1. Due Measures from a Pre-Protagorean Perspective -- 3.2. Due Measures in Protagorean Allusions -- 4. Monetary Man: An Undercurrent in the Biographical Tradition -- 4.1. "The Customer is King" -- 4.2. "The Measure of All Things Useful" -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">6 The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen -- 1. Gorgias' Life and Works -- 2. Ethics and Metaethics: Funeral Oration -- 3. The Metaphysics of Judgment: On Nature -- 4. The Dramatics of Judgment: Palamedes -- 5. The Psychodynamics of Judgment: Helen -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies -- 1. Projectiles of Pollution -- 2. Two Tetralogies -- 3. The Third Tetralogy: An Analysis -- 4. The Implications for Material Miasma -- Bibliography -- 8 Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Truth -- 3. Concord -- 4. Self-Interest and Pleasure in Truth and Concord -- 5. Concluding Remarks on Antiphon's Political Ideas (and on His Identity) -- Bibliography -- 9 The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates -- 1. The Socratic Problem -- 2. Ethics and the Scope of Socrates' Philosophy -- 3. Socrates' Conception of His Philosophy -- 4. Eudaimonism -- 5. Psychē and Knowledge -- 6. Technē, Sophia, Epistēmē -- 7. Method -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation -- 3. Heracles' Choice -- 4. Language -- 5. Religion -- Bibliography -- 11 The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence for Democritus' ethical works -- 3. Ethics in the Form of Maxims -- 4. Democritus' Use of Maxims -- 5. Democritus, Peri euthumiēs -- 6. Social-Political dimensions of Democritus' ethics -- 7. Democritus' Conception of Autonomy -- 8. Democritus' Eudaimonistic and Therapeutic Ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Works of Critias -- 4. Debating Critias, debating aristocratic sōphrosynē</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Bibliography -- 13 Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence(Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of Preservation: Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy (c.300 CE) -- 3. Context of Production: Social Contract Theoryin the Late Fifth Century BCE (?) -- 4. Anonymus Iamblichi's On Excellence (Περὶ ἀρετῆς): A Discussion of the Fragments -- 4.1. Fragments 1-2: Excellence and Reputation -- 4.2. Fragments 3-5: Excellence, Human Psychology, and Society -- 4.3. Fragments 6-8: Law, Justice, and the "Superman" -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14 On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi -- 1. Orientation to the Text -- 2. The Question of the Unity of T -- 3.1. Opening Sentences and Connecting Particles -- 3.2. The Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.3. The Relation between the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.4. Conclusion to the Functional Unity of the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 4. The Topical Unity of Sections 1-3 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Topical and Functional Relation between sections 1-3 and Sections 4-5 -- 5.2. The Topical Relation between Sections 1-3 and Section 4 -- 5.3 The Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and 5 -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Τὸ Phrases -- 5.3.3 Two Interpretations of the Identity and Differentiating Theses -- 5.3.4 The Central Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 4 -- 5.3.5 The Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 5 -- 5.3.6 Conclusion to the Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and Section 5 -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX 1: The Manuscript Tradition -- APPENDIX 2: Sections of Marcianus Gr. 262 -- 15 Antisthenes' Ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pleasure versus Toil: Antisthenes in the Doxographical Reception -- 3. The Fortress of Reason and the Rejection of Conventional Norms</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">4. Antisthenes in his Own Words -- 5. The Virtue of Characters: The Forensic Speeches -- 6. Interpretations of the Homeric Characters -- 7. Antisthenes as Xenophon's Character -- 8. Cyrus and Heracles -- 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16 Antisthenes and Allegoresis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Dubious Testimonies -- 3. The Most Attractive Candidates -- 4. The Less Attractive Candidates -- 5. The Least Attractive Candidates -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 17 Aristippus of Cyrene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristippus on Pleasure -- 3. Aristippus as a Socratic -- 4. The Reception of Aristippus as an Ethical Hedonist -- Bibliography -- 18 Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics -- 1. Works and Life -- 2. Xenophon's Models -- 3. Self-Mastery -- 4. Piety, Reciprocity, and Friendship -- 5. Ends -- 6. Endings -- Bibliography -- 19 Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. "The Socrates Problem" -- 2. Pragmatism -- 3. Eudaimonism -- 4. Egoism? -- 5. Virtue and the Virtues -- 6. Virtue and Happiness -- 7. The Necessity of Virtue -- 8. 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| spelling | Wolfsdorf, David 1969- Verfasser (DE-588)1046432931 aut Early Greek Ethics Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2020 ©2020 1 Online-Ressource (828 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cover -- Early Greek Ethics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Abstracts and Contributor Information -- 1. Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen" -- 7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants" -- 13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -- 14. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi" -- 15. Susan Prince, "Antisthenes' Ethics" -- 16. Mikolaj Domaradzki, "Antisthenes and Allegoresis" -- 17. Voula Tsouna, "Aristippus of Cyrene" -- 18. David M. Johnson, "Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics" -- 19. Nicholas D. Smith, "Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues" -- 20. Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson, "On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" -- 21. Joseph Skinner, "Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values" -- 22. Paul Demont, "Ethics in Early Greek Medicine" -- 23. Radcliffe Edmonds, "The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought" 24. Dimitri El Murr, "Friendship in Early Greek Ethics" -- 25. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson, "Justice and the Afterlife" -- 26. Eleonora Rocconi, "Music and the Soul" -- 27. Christopher Rowe, "The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics" -- 28. Will Desmond, "Diogenes of Sinope" -- 29. Tim O'Keefe, "Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention" -- 30. Carl A. Huffman, "Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Individuals and Texts -- 1 The Pythagorean Acusmata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitional Sayings -- 3. Religion, Cult, and the Sacred -- 4. Dietary Taboos -- 5. Virtues and Superstitions -- 6. The Ethics of the Acusmata -- Bibliography -- 2 Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Xenophanes on Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Epistemic Arrogance and Ethical Failure -- 4. Between Arrogance and Self-Affirmation -- 5. Mockeries and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Soul -- 3. Human Understanding -- 4. God and Wisdom -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles -- Bibliography -- 5 The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem with Fragments -- 1.2. The Fragment and its Oldest Extant Exegesis -- 2. Judging Man: Ethical Relativism -- 2.1. "Whatever the polis decides" -- 2.2. Human Measure versus Human Condition -- 3. Measuring Man: An Alternative Ethical Reading -- 3.1. Due Measures from a Pre-Protagorean Perspective -- 3.2. Due Measures in Protagorean Allusions -- 4. Monetary Man: An Undercurrent in the Biographical Tradition -- 4.1. "The Customer is King" -- 4.2. "The Measure of All Things Useful" -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography 6 The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen -- 1. Gorgias' Life and Works -- 2. Ethics and Metaethics: Funeral Oration -- 3. The Metaphysics of Judgment: On Nature -- 4. The Dramatics of Judgment: Palamedes -- 5. The Psychodynamics of Judgment: Helen -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies -- 1. Projectiles of Pollution -- 2. Two Tetralogies -- 3. The Third Tetralogy: An Analysis -- 4. The Implications for Material Miasma -- Bibliography -- 8 Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Truth -- 3. Concord -- 4. Self-Interest and Pleasure in Truth and Concord -- 5. Concluding Remarks on Antiphon's Political Ideas (and on His Identity) -- Bibliography -- 9 The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates -- 1. The Socratic Problem -- 2. Ethics and the Scope of Socrates' Philosophy -- 3. Socrates' Conception of His Philosophy -- 4. Eudaimonism -- 5. Psychē and Knowledge -- 6. Technē, Sophia, Epistēmē -- 7. Method -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation -- 3. Heracles' Choice -- 4. Language -- 5. Religion -- Bibliography -- 11 The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence for Democritus' ethical works -- 3. Ethics in the Form of Maxims -- 4. Democritus' Use of Maxims -- 5. Democritus, Peri euthumiēs -- 6. Social-Political dimensions of Democritus' ethics -- 7. Democritus' Conception of Autonomy -- 8. Democritus' Eudaimonistic and Therapeutic Ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Works of Critias -- 4. Debating Critias, debating aristocratic sōphrosynē Bibliography -- 13 Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence(Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of Preservation: Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy (c.300 CE) -- 3. Context of Production: Social Contract Theoryin the Late Fifth Century BCE (?) -- 4. Anonymus Iamblichi's On Excellence (Περὶ ἀρετῆς): A Discussion of the Fragments -- 4.1. Fragments 1-2: Excellence and Reputation -- 4.2. Fragments 3-5: Excellence, Human Psychology, and Society -- 4.3. Fragments 6-8: Law, Justice, and the "Superman" -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14 On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi -- 1. Orientation to the Text -- 2. The Question of the Unity of T -- 3.1. Opening Sentences and Connecting Particles -- 3.2. The Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.3. The Relation between the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.4. Conclusion to the Functional Unity of the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 4. The Topical Unity of Sections 1-3 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Topical and Functional Relation between sections 1-3 and Sections 4-5 -- 5.2. The Topical Relation between Sections 1-3 and Section 4 -- 5.3 The Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and 5 -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Τὸ Phrases -- 5.3.3 Two Interpretations of the Identity and Differentiating Theses -- 5.3.4 The Central Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 4 -- 5.3.5 The Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 5 -- 5.3.6 Conclusion to the Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and Section 5 -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX 1: The Manuscript Tradition -- APPENDIX 2: Sections of Marcianus Gr. 262 -- 15 Antisthenes' Ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pleasure versus Toil: Antisthenes in the Doxographical Reception -- 3. The Fortress of Reason and the Rejection of Conventional Norms 4. Antisthenes in his Own Words -- 5. The Virtue of Characters: The Forensic Speeches -- 6. Interpretations of the Homeric Characters -- 7. Antisthenes as Xenophon's Character -- 8. Cyrus and Heracles -- 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16 Antisthenes and Allegoresis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Dubious Testimonies -- 3. The Most Attractive Candidates -- 4. The Less Attractive Candidates -- 5. The Least Attractive Candidates -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 17 Aristippus of Cyrene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristippus on Pleasure -- 3. Aristippus as a Socratic -- 4. The Reception of Aristippus as an Ethical Hedonist -- Bibliography -- 18 Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics -- 1. Works and Life -- 2. Xenophon's Models -- 3. Self-Mastery -- 4. Piety, Reciprocity, and Friendship -- 5. Ends -- 6. Endings -- Bibliography -- 19 Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. "The Socrates Problem" -- 2. Pragmatism -- 3. Eudaimonism -- 4. Egoism? -- 5. Virtue and the Virtues -- 6. Virtue and Happiness -- 7. The Necessity of Virtue -- 8. Going Wrong -- Bibliography -- 20 On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Authorship of On Law and Justice -- 3. Analysis of the Fragments of On Law and Justice -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Topics and Fields -- 21 Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Ethnography -- 3. Ethnography and the Greeks -- 4. The Relationship between Ethnography and Anthropology -- 5. Greek Ethnography and Ethical Inquiry -- 6. Ethics and Ethnography in Herodotus and Elsewhere -- Bibliography -- 22 Ethics in Early Greek Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Body, Character, and Emotions -- 3. Medical Ethics -- Bibliography -- 23 The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought 1. Introduction: Did the Greeks have an Ethical Idea of Life after Death? Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice philosophical ethics Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 gnd rswk-swf Griechenland Altertum (DE-588)4093976-5 gnd rswk-swf Electronic books (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Griechenland Altertum (DE-588)4093976-5 g Ethik (DE-588)4015602-3 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wolfsdorf, David Conan Early Greek Ethics Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2020 9780198758679 |
| spellingShingle | Wolfsdorf, David 1969- Early Greek Ethics Cover -- Early Greek Ethics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Abstracts and Contributor Information -- 1. Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen" -- 7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants" -- 13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -- 14. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi" -- 15. Susan Prince, "Antisthenes' Ethics" -- 16. Mikolaj Domaradzki, "Antisthenes and Allegoresis" -- 17. Voula Tsouna, "Aristippus of Cyrene" -- 18. David M. Johnson, "Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics" -- 19. Nicholas D. Smith, "Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues" -- 20. Phillip Sidney Horky and Monte Ransome Johnson, "On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum" -- 21. Joseph Skinner, "Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values" -- 22. Paul Demont, "Ethics in Early Greek Medicine" -- 23. Radcliffe Edmonds, "The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought" 24. Dimitri El Murr, "Friendship in Early Greek Ethics" -- 25. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson, "Justice and the Afterlife" -- 26. Eleonora Rocconi, "Music and the Soul" -- 27. Christopher Rowe, "The Teachability of Aretē among the Socratics" -- 28. Will Desmond, "Diogenes of Sinope" -- 29. Tim O'Keefe, "Anaxarchus on Indifference, Happiness, and Convention" -- 30. Carl A. Huffman, "Aristoxenus' Pythagorean Precepts: A Rational Pythagorean Ethics" -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Individuals and Texts -- 1 The Pythagorean Acusmata -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Definitional Sayings -- 3. Religion, Cult, and the Sacred -- 4. Dietary Taboos -- 5. Virtues and Superstitions -- 6. The Ethics of the Acusmata -- Bibliography -- 2 Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Xenophanes on Knowledge and Belief -- 3. Epistemic Arrogance and Ethical Failure -- 4. Between Arrogance and Self-Affirmation -- 5. Mockeries and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Soul -- 3. Human Understanding -- 4. God and Wisdom -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4 Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles -- Bibliography -- 5 The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem with Fragments -- 1.2. The Fragment and its Oldest Extant Exegesis -- 2. Judging Man: Ethical Relativism -- 2.1. "Whatever the polis decides" -- 2.2. Human Measure versus Human Condition -- 3. Measuring Man: An Alternative Ethical Reading -- 3.1. Due Measures from a Pre-Protagorean Perspective -- 3.2. Due Measures in Protagorean Allusions -- 4. Monetary Man: An Undercurrent in the Biographical Tradition -- 4.1. "The Customer is King" -- 4.2. "The Measure of All Things Useful" -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography 6 The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen -- 1. Gorgias' Life and Works -- 2. Ethics and Metaethics: Funeral Oration -- 3. The Metaphysics of Judgment: On Nature -- 4. The Dramatics of Judgment: Palamedes -- 5. The Psychodynamics of Judgment: Helen -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 7 Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies -- 1. Projectiles of Pollution -- 2. Two Tetralogies -- 3. The Third Tetralogy: An Analysis -- 4. The Implications for Material Miasma -- Bibliography -- 8 Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Truth -- 3. Concord -- 4. Self-Interest and Pleasure in Truth and Concord -- 5. Concluding Remarks on Antiphon's Political Ideas (and on His Identity) -- Bibliography -- 9 The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates -- 1. The Socratic Problem -- 2. Ethics and the Scope of Socrates' Philosophy -- 3. Socrates' Conception of His Philosophy -- 4. Eudaimonism -- 5. Psychē and Knowledge -- 6. Technē, Sophia, Epistēmē -- 7. Method -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 10 Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation -- 3. Heracles' Choice -- 4. Language -- 5. Religion -- Bibliography -- 11 The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evidence for Democritus' ethical works -- 3. Ethics in the Form of Maxims -- 4. Democritus' Use of Maxims -- 5. Democritus, Peri euthumiēs -- 6. Social-Political dimensions of Democritus' ethics -- 7. Democritus' Conception of Autonomy -- 8. Democritus' Eudaimonistic and Therapeutic Ethics -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 12 The Sōphrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Context -- 3. Works of Critias -- 4. Debating Critias, debating aristocratic sōphrosynē Bibliography -- 13 Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence(Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context of Preservation: Iamblichus' Exhortation to Philosophy (c.300 CE) -- 3. Context of Production: Social Contract Theoryin the Late Fifth Century BCE (?) -- 4. Anonymus Iamblichi's On Excellence (Περὶ ἀρετῆς): A Discussion of the Fragments -- 4.1. Fragments 1-2: Excellence and Reputation -- 4.2. Fragments 3-5: Excellence, Human Psychology, and Society -- 4.3. Fragments 6-8: Law, Justice, and the "Superman" -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 14 On the Unity of the Dissoi Logoi -- 1. Orientation to the Text -- 2. The Question of the Unity of T -- 3.1. Opening Sentences and Connecting Particles -- 3.2. The Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.3. The Relation between the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 3.4. Conclusion to the Functional Unity of the Antilogical and Monological Portions of T -- 4. The Topical Unity of Sections 1-3 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Topical and Functional Relation between sections 1-3 and Sections 4-5 -- 5.2. The Topical Relation between Sections 1-3 and Section 4 -- 5.3 The Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and 5 -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Τὸ Phrases -- 5.3.3 Two Interpretations of the Identity and Differentiating Theses -- 5.3.4 The Central Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 4 -- 5.3.5 The Argument for the Differentiating Thesis in Section 5 -- 5.3.6 Conclusion to the Topical and Functional Relation between Sections 1-4 and Section 5 -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- APPENDIX 1: The Manuscript Tradition -- APPENDIX 2: Sections of Marcianus Gr. 262 -- 15 Antisthenes' Ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pleasure versus Toil: Antisthenes in the Doxographical Reception -- 3. The Fortress of Reason and the Rejection of Conventional Norms 4. Antisthenes in his Own Words -- 5. The Virtue of Characters: The Forensic Speeches -- 6. Interpretations of the Homeric Characters -- 7. Antisthenes as Xenophon's Character -- 8. Cyrus and Heracles -- 9. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 16 Antisthenes and Allegoresis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Dubious Testimonies -- 3. The Most Attractive Candidates -- 4. The Less Attractive Candidates -- 5. The Least Attractive Candidates -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 17 Aristippus of Cyrene -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aristippus on Pleasure -- 3. Aristippus as a Socratic -- 4. The Reception of Aristippus as an Ethical Hedonist -- Bibliography -- 18 Self-Mastery, Piety, and Reciprocity in Xenophon's Ethics -- 1. Works and Life -- 2. Xenophon's Models -- 3. Self-Mastery -- 4. Piety, Reciprocity, and Friendship -- 5. Ends -- 6. Endings -- Bibliography -- 19 Ethics in Plato's Early Dialogues -- 1. "The Socrates Problem" -- 2. Pragmatism -- 3. Eudaimonism -- 4. Egoism? -- 5. Virtue and the Virtues -- 6. Virtue and Happiness -- 7. The Necessity of Virtue -- 8. Going Wrong -- Bibliography -- 20 On Law and Justice: Attributed to Archytas of Tarentum -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Authorship of On Law and Justice -- 3. Analysis of the Fragments of On Law and Justice -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part II: Topics and Fields -- 21 Early Greek Ethnography and Human Values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining Ethnography -- 3. Ethnography and the Greeks -- 4. The Relationship between Ethnography and Anthropology -- 5. Greek Ethnography and Ethical Inquiry -- 6. Ethics and Ethnography in Herodotus and Elsewhere -- Bibliography -- 22 Ethics in Early Greek Medicine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Human Body, Character, and Emotions -- 3. Medical Ethics -- Bibliography -- 23 The Ethics of Afterlife in Classical Greek Thought 1. 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