Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy

0/5 ( ratings)

C.C.W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists , showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists.

Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: March 01, 2008

ISBN: 0199226393

ISBN 13: 9780199226399

Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy

0/5 ( ratings)

C.C.W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek atomists , showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and that pleasure is also a central concept for the atomists.

Pleasure, Mind, and Soul provides a fascinating survey of a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, and which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today.

Language: English

Pages: 320

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: March 01, 2008

ISBN: 0199226393

ISBN 13: 9780199226399

More books from C.C.W. Taylor

Socrates: A Very Short Introduction

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Greek Philosophers

3.8/5 ( ratings)

از آغاز تا افلاطون

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books II--IV: Translated with an introduction and commentary: Bk.s 2-4 (Clarendon Aristotle)

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XIII: 1995

Ancient Philosophy 1996

From the Beginning to Plato: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 1

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XII: 1994

Rationality and Happiness: From the Ancients to the Early Medievals (Rochester Studies in Philosophy, 5)

Protagoras

The Atomists Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments

Human Agency: Language Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson

Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3-4

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XV: 1997

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XVI, 1998

Rate this book!

Write a review?