Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics

ISBN: 9781108359559 出版年：2019 页码：248 Georgia Tsouni Cambridge University Press

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.