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Analyses afresh the naturalistic version of Peripatetic ethics preserved in Cicero's On Ends 5, our major source for the ethical system of the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Shows how he grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis).

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'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikeiōsis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiōsis; 6. Oikeiōsis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikeiōsis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.

Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 4 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9781108412612
      978-1108412612
      ISBN-10 1108412610
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      Ancient history Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyses afresh the naturalistic version of Peripatetic ethics preserved in Cicero's On Ends 5, our major source for the ethical system of the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Shows how he grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis).

      Trade Review
      'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikeiōsis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiōsis; 6. Oikeiōsis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikeiōsis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.

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