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1 online resource |
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Philosophia antiqua: a series of studies on ancient philosophy, 0079-1687 ; VOLUME 138 |
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Philosophia antiqua: a series of studies on ancient philosophy ; volume 138
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| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Conventions; Introduction; 1. Setting the Scene: Aristotle and Menander; 2. Menander and Theophrastus on Character(s)?; 3. The Structure of the Book and the Method of Enquiry; Chapter 1. Setting the Broader Background; 1. Understanding, Ethics and Ancient Philosophy; 2. Understanding, Ethics and Aesthetic Pleasure; Chapter 2. Degrees of Understanding: Menander and Aristotle on How We Understand; 1. Epitrepontes: Recognition and Understanding; 2. Notes on Recognition in Euripides' Electra; 3. Aristotle: Grasping the Sense |
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3.1. Understanding and Missing Understanding3.2. Grasping and Missing the Grasp; 4. Conclusions; Chapter 3. The Misleading Power of Perceptions and Emotions; 1. "Is This Plausible?" (Men. Sam. 216); 1.1. Demeas; 1.2. Moschion; 2. Aristotle on the Vulnerability of Correct (Ethical) Reasoning; 2.1. Thinking about One's Own Perceptions; 2.2. Acting on the Basis of One's Own Perceptions; 3. Conclusions; Chapter 4. Chance, Ignorance and Human Agency; 1. A Play of Chance / A Chance to Play; 1.1. Perikeiromene; 1.1.1. The Prologue of Agnoia; 1.1.2. Polemon and Moschion; 1.2. Aspis |
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1.2.1. The Prologue of Tychē1.2.2. Smikrines and Daos; 1.3. Divine Prologue Speakers and Related Matters; 2. Aristotle on Chance, Ignorance and Rational Agents; 2.1. Prologues and Likelihood; 2.2. Aristotle, Tychē and Agnoia; 2.2.1. Chance and Mere Chance; 2.2.2. Voluntary, Non-Voluntary, Involuntary Actions; 3. Conclusions; Chapter 5. Character, Ethics and Human Relationships: Aristotle and Menander on How We Learn to Be Good and How We Become Bad; 1. Dyscolos: The Young Man and the Old Man; 1.2. Other Examples of Young Men and Old Men; 2. Aristotle on the Individual and His Community |
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2.1. Listening and Watching Friends2.2. Talking and Living with Friends; 3. Conclusions; Conclusions; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Ancient Sources |
| Summary |
In Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding, Valeria Cinaglia offers a parallel study of Menander's New Comedy and Aristotle's philosophy and she explores the depth and implications of their analogies in subjects ranging from epistemology and psychology to ethics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Aristotle
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Menander, of Athens -- Criticism and interpretation
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Aristotle. fast (OCoLC)fst00029885 |
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Menander, of Athens. fast (OCoLC)fst00049103 |
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Ethics.
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Ethics
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ethics (philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Ethics.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004282827 |
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9004282823 |
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