Cooper Knowledge, Nature, and the Good

Essays on Ancient Philosophy
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John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of Reason and Emotion (Princeton) and Reason and Human Good in Aristotle.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER 1: Method and Science in On Ancient Medicine 3

CHAPTER 2: Plato on Sense-Perception and Knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186) 43

CHAPTER 3: Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the Independence of Oratory from Philosophy 65

CHAPTER 4: Arcesilaus: Socratic and Skeptic 81

NATURE

CHAPTER 5: Aristotle on Natural Teleology 107

CHAPTER 6: Hypothetical Necessity 130

CHAPTER 7: Two Notes on Aristotle on Mixture 148

CHAPTER 8: Metaphysics in Aristotle's Embryology 174

CHAPTER 9: Stoic Autonomy 204

THE GOOD

CHAPTER 10: Two Theories of Justice 247

CHAPTER 11: Plato and Aristotle on "Finality" and "(Self-) Sufficiency" 270

CHAPTER 12: Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Seneca 309

CHAPTER 13: Moral Theory and Moral Improvement: Marcus Aurelius 335

Bibliography 369

Index of Passages 381

General Index 397

Über Autor(innen)

John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is the author of Reason and Emotion (Princeton) and Reason and Human Good in Aristotle.