The life worth living in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy:

The account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not happy, is at least worth living, compared with being dead or never having come into life? This question...

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1. Verfasser: Machek, David (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung:The account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not happy, is at least worth living, compared with being dead or never having come into life? This question was also much discussed in antiquity, and David Machek's book reconstructs, for the first time, philosophical engagements with the question from Socrates to Plotinus. Machek's comprehensive book explores ancient views on a life worth living against a background of the pessimistic outlook on the human condition which was adopted by the Greek poets, and also shows the continuities and contrasts between the ancient perspective and modern philosophical debates about biomedical ethics and the ethics of procreation. His rich study of this relatively neglected theme offers a fresh and compelling narrative of ancient ethics
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Plato on making life worth living by doing one's job -- Aristotle on the natural goodness of life -- Decoupling happy life from life worth living in stoicism -- Decoupling happy life from life worth living in stoicism -- Threshold nears the target : Hellenistic hedonists on the life worth living -- Peripatetics on vicious humans and caged animals -- Plotinus on the worth of embodied existence
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 257 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009257916
DOI:10.1017/9781009257916

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