Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness And Duty - Softcover

Engstrom, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521624975 ISBN 13: 9780521624978

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed.

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Review

'Importantly, old stereotypes, or conventional wisdom, about the differences between ancient and modern ethics, especially between Aristotle and Kant, are challenged, exposing possible unities (and historical influences) that tradition has overlooked. However, superficial similarities are also probed and sometimes shown to mask deep remaining differences. The papers call attention to, as well as represent, a quite remarkable contemporary revival of important philosophical/scholarly treatment of the history of ethics, and the authors are, without exception, major players in this movement.' Thomas E. Hill, Jr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Book Description

This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant reassessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521624975
• ISBN 13: 9780521624978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322