Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics

Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
I. Motivations of Philosophical Historiography......Page 18
II. Historiographical Themes: Modern Fragmentation and Ancient Harmony......Page 20
III. More Recent Responses among Classicists to the Theme of Hellenic Harmony......Page 33
IV. Some Philosophers' Responses to Greek Ethics......Page 37
V. The Kantian Response......Page 39
VI. Schiller's Reaction......Page 44
VII. The Hegelian Response......Page 46
VIII. Nietzsche and his Infuence......Page 60
I. The Kantian and Hegelian Responses Early in the Twentieth Century......Page 64
II. Moore's Non-Eudaimonist Reading of Plato......Page 71
III. More Recent Philosophical Views of Greek Ethics......Page 72
IV. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Morality......Page 78
V. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: The Ethics of Virtue......Page 83
VI. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Contingency......Page 86
VII. Aims and Conflict......Page 90
I. The Rejection of lmperativity......Page 99
II. The Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Virtue......Page 107
III. The Nostalgic Flight from Imperativity......Page 111
IV. Imperatives, Attractives, and Repulsives......Page 112
V. Uses of Imperativity in Greek Literature......Page 117
VI. The Alleged ‘Transition’ to Roman Christianity: Imperativity in Greek Ethics after Aristotle......Page 121
VII. Imperativity in Aristotle......Page 125
VIII. Imperativity in Plato......Page 137
IX. Imperatives in Ethics and their Philosophical Examination......Page 139
I. The Hegelian Conception of the Polis......Page 141
II. Some Assumptions of the Hegelian Account......Page 147
III. Norms Independent of the Polis......Page 151
IV. The Golden Rule......Page 160
V. On Some Sources of Confusion about Greek Norms......Page 163
VI. The Kosmos......Page 165
I. Homogeneity and Variety in Classical Greek Ethics......Page 172
II. Before Plato's Time......Page 173
III. Plato's Milieu: Thrasymachus......Page 183
IV. Plato's Milieu: Socrates......Page 190
V. Some Platonic Passages outside the Republic......Page 198
VI. The Republic: Plato's Project......Page 206
VII. The Republic: The Rulers' Choice......Page 215
I. The Periods of Greek Ethics......Page 232
II. Aristotle, the Harmonizing Eudaimonist......Page 239
III. The Kantian and Hegelian Interpretations of Aristotle......Page 243
IV. The Need for a Non-Harmonizing Interpretation......Page 248
V. The Question of Conflict within Ethical Virtue......Page 255
VI. Theôria......Page 261
VII. Philia......Page 281
VIII. Politics, Biology, and Cosmology......Page 291
IX. Eudaimonism without Harmony......Page 297
I. The Traditional Picture of Hellenistic Ethics......Page 307
II. Systematic Monism in Hellenistic Ethics......Page 311
III. Epicureanism......Page 318
IV. The Stoics......Page 328
I. On Some Ideas about Differences Between Ancient and Modern Ethics......Page 344
II. Greek Eudaimonism......Page 347
III. Self-Referential, Partly Self-Referential, and Universal Aims......Page 349
IV. Eudaimonism and Egoism......Page 357
V. Eudaimonism and Harmony......Page 358
VI. Greek Ethics: Development and Variety......Page 360
Bibliography......Page 364
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