The Norms of Nature : Studies in Hellenistic Ethics (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Preface Gunther Patzig; Part I. Argument, Belief and Emotion: 1. Doing without objective values: ancient and modern strategies Julia Annas; 2. Therapeutic arguments: Epicurus and Aristotle Martha Nussbaum; 3. Nothing to us? David Furley; 4. The Stoic doctrine of the affections of the soul Michael Frede; Part II. Ethical Foundations and the summum bonum: 5. The cradle argument in Epicureanism and Stoicism Jacques Brunschwig; 6. Discovering the good: oikei?sis and kath?konta in Stoic ethics Troels Engberg-Pedersen; 7. Antipater, or the art of living Gisela Striker; 8. Stoic and Aristotelian conceptions of happiness T. H. Irwin; 9. Epicurus - hedonist malgre lui Malte Hossenfelder; Bibliography; Index of passages; Glossary of Greek and Latin terms; General index.