Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics

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PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE
	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Note on references
	Introduction
	CHAPTER 1  Philosophy and How to Live
		1. THE PROJECT
		2. SYNOPTIC ETHICS
		3. TWENTIETH-CENTURY ETHICS AND THE PROFESSIONAL RETREAT
		4. MODERN NORMATIVE ETHICS
		5. THE REVIVAL OF VIRTUE ETHICS AND THE LIMITS OF REASON
	CHAPTER 2 Ratiocentric ethics
		1. THE FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY
		2. THE ETHICS OF REASON IN PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
		3. REASON AND SELF MASTERY
		4. STOIC DETACHMENT AND EPICUREAN TRANQUILLITY
	CHAPTER 3 The Ethics of Science and Power
		1. THE CARTESIAN REVOLUTION:  MATHEMATICAL TRANSPARENCY AND ARBITRARY LAW
		2. ETHICS FOR MAN IN AN ALIEN UNIVERSE
		3. MORALITY AND THE NEW METHOD
		4. CARTESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
		5. THE ROLE OF THE PASSIONS
		6. FORTUNE, EXTERNALS AND THE WILL
	CHAPTER 4 Ethics and the challenge to reason
		1. THE ECLIPSE OF REASON
		2. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS CREDENTIALS
		3. THE CONCEPT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND ITS HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS
		4. UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES AND MANNIFESTATION
		5. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ETHICAL DOMAIN
			6. The Transformation of the Self
		7. AKRASIA AND TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS
		8. REASON, INTERGRATION AND SELF-AWARENESS
	Notes
		INTRODUCTION
		1 PHILOSOPHY AND HOW TO LIVE
		2 RATIOCENRIC ETHICS
		3 THE ETHICS OF SCIENCE AND POWER
		4 ETHICS AND THE CHALLENGE TO REASON
	Bibliography
	Index