State and Nature: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Plato and Aristotle
Human Nature and Legal Norms: Antiphon the Sophist as Anonymous Target in Plato’s Republic IX
Natural Born Philosophers
Normative Naturalism in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy?
Whose State? Whose Nature? How Aristotle’s Polis is ‘Natural’
Aristotle on Freedom, Nature, and Law
Aristotle on the Rationality of Women: Consequences for Virtue and Practical Accountability
Part II: Hellenistic Philosophy
Cynic Origins of the Stoic Doctrine of Natural Law?
The Normativity of Nature in Epicurean Ethics and Politics
Nature and Psychology in Cicero’s Republic
Unnatural Law: A Ciceronian Perspective
Natural Law and Casuistic Reasoning in Roman Jurisprudence
Part III: Late Antiquity
Human Nature and Normativity in Plotinus
On Justice in Porphyry’s On Abstinence
Early Christian Philosophers on Society and Political Norms
Part IV: Medieval Philosophy
Against Nature: Two Critics of Naturalism in the Islamic World
“Like Ants in a Colony We Do Our Share”: Political Animals in Medieval Philosophy
Ockham on Human Freedom and the Nature and Origin of Lordship
Index of Names
Index of Subjects