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Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy by David Machek (2024, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009257862
ISBN-139781009257862
eBay Product ID (ePID)16069202013
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Number of Pages271 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
TopicHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy
AuthorDavid Machek
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Reviews'[The book] is strongly to be commended for the freshness of the questions it poses and for the author's intelligent approach to answering them.' A. A. Long, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 'Machek's book on 'the life worth living' is a fascinating addition to the literature on ancient Greek and Roman ethics. It systematically investigates, with subtlety and rigor, important questions about a worthwhile life and the value of life that are peripheral to or ignored by standard studies of ancient ethical theory.' Richard Kraut, Northwestern University
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal180
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Plato On Making Life Worth Living By Doing One's Job; 2. Aristotle on the Natural Goodness of Life; 3. Decoupling Happy Life from Life Worth Living in Stoicism; 4. Threshold Nears the Target: Hellenistic Hedonists on the Life Worth Living; 5. Peripatetics on Vicious Humans and Caged Animals; 6. Plotinus on the Worth of Embodied Existence.
SynopsisThe account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not happy, is at least worth living, compared with being dead or never having come into life? This question was also much discussed in antiquity, and David Machek's book reconstructs, for the first time, philosophical engagements with the question from Socrates to Plotinus. Machek's comprehensive book explores ancient views on a life worth living against a background of the pessimistic outlook on the human condition which was adopted by the Greek poets, and also shows the continuities and contrasts between the ancient perspective and modern philosophical debates about biomedical ethics and the ethics of procreation. His rich study of this relatively neglected theme offers a fresh and compelling narrative of ancient ethics., The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the less-examined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.
LC Classification NumberB111.M24 2024
