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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460137703321

Titolo

Particulars in Greek philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : the seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy / / edited by Robert W. Sharples

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-95223-4

9786612952234

90-04-19324-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Philosophia antiqua, , 0079-1687 ; ; v. 120

Altri autori (Persone)

SharplesR. W

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Individuation (Philosophy) - History

Ethics, Ancient

Stoics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the 7th S.V. Keeling Colloquium, held in November, 2007, at University College London.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Moral vision and legislating for the good in Aristotle / Robert Wardy -- Particular virtues in the Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle / Carlo Natali -- What's a particular, and what makes it so? : some thoughts, mainly about Aristotle / Verity Harte -- Particulars, selves, and individuals in Stoic philosophy / Christopher Gill -- On Christopher Gill on Particulars, selves, and individuals in Stoic philosophy / Angela Hobbs -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on particulars and the Stoic criterion of identity / Marwan Rashed.

Sommario/riassunto

Ancient Greek philosophy has been criticised, for example by the late Bernard Williams, for emphasising the universal at the expense of the particular. Six leading scholars consider what the Greeks themselves, from Plato to the period of the Roman Empire, had to say on this issue in the contexts of ethics, psychology, metaphysics and cosmology. Ancient views are compared with modern ones, and the influence of the former on the latter is considered.