TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,John M.
TI  - Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy 
SN  - 9780691117249
U1  - 180 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Academic skepticism
KW  - Alexander Nehamas
KW  - Alexander of Aphrodisias
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Antiochus of Ascalon
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Arius Didymus
KW  - Atomism
KW  - Awareness
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Carneades
KW  - Chrysippus
KW  - Concept
KW  - Counterargument
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Democritus
KW  - Determinism
KW  - Dialectician
KW  - Disease
KW  - Empedocles
KW  - Epictetus
KW  - Epicureanism
KW  - Epicurus
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Eudaimonia
KW  - Existence
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Explication
KW  - Eye color
KW  - Feeling
KW  - First principle
KW  - Four causes
KW  - Glaucon
KW  - God
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Hedonism
KW  - Hiero (Xenophon)
KW  - Hypothesis
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Indication (medicine)
KW  - Inference
KW  - Ingredient
KW  - Inquiry
KW  - Isocrates
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Loeb Classical Library
KW  - Materialism
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Morality
KW  - Mutatis mutandis
KW  - Natural kind
KW  - On Ancient Medicine
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Parmenides
KW  - Phenomenon
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophical analysis
KW  - Philosophical methodology
KW  - Philosophical theory
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Physician
KW  - Plato
KW  - Platonism
KW  - Potentiality and actuality
KW  - Practical reason
KW  - Pre-Socratic philosophy
KW  - Premise
KW  - Principle
KW  - Protagoras
KW  - Pyrrhonism
KW  - Quantity
KW  - Rationality
KW  - Reality
KW  - Reason
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Self-sufficiency
KW  - Semen
KW  - Sextus Empiricus
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Socratic method
KW  - Socratic
KW  - Stoicism
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Teleology
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - Theaetetus (dialogue)
KW  - Theoretical physics
KW  - Theory of Forms
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Understanding
KW  - Value theory
KW  - Virtue
KW  - W. D. Ross
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; KNOWLEDGE --; CHAPTER 1. Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine --; CHAPTER 2. Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184–186) --; CHAPTER 3. Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the Independence of Oratory from Philosophy --; CHAPTER 4. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Skeptic --; NATURE --; CHAPTER 5. Aristotle on Natural Teleology --; CHAPTER 6. Hypothetical Necessity --; CHAPTER 7 Two Notes on Aristotle on Mixture --; CHAPTER 8 Metaphysics in Aristotle’s Embryology --; CHAPTER 9 Stoic Autonomy --; THE GOOD --; CHAPTER 10. Two Theories of Justice --; CHAPTER 11. Plato and Aristotle on “Finality” and “(Self-)Sufficiency” --; CHAPTER 12. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Seneca --; CHAPTER 13. Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Marcus Aurelius --; Bibliography --; Index of Passages --; General Index; restricted access
N2  - Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods--from Hippocratic medical theory and Plato's epistemology and moral philosophy, to Aristotle's physics and metaphysics, academic scepticism, and the cosmology, moral psychology, and ethical theory of the ancient Stoics. Almost half of the pieces appear here for the first time or are presented in newly expanded, extensively revised versions. Many stand at the cutting edge of research into ancient ethics and moral psychology. Other chapters, dating from as far back as 1970, are classics of philosophical scholarship on antiquity that continue to play a prominent role in current teaching and scholarship in the field. All of the chapters are distinctive for the way that, whatever the particular topic being pursued, they attempt to understand the ancient philosophers' views in philosophical terms drawn from the ancient philosophical tradition itself (rather than from contemporary philosophy). Through engaging creatively and philosophically with the ancient texts, these essays aim to make ancient philosophical perspectives freshly available to contemporary philosophers and philosophy students, in all their fascinating inventiveness, originality, and deep philosophical merit. This book will be treasured by philosophers, classicists, students of philosophy and classics, those in other disciplines with an interest in ancient philosophy, and anyone who seeks to understand philosophy in philosophical terms
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