Ethics of Ancient Greece and Rome

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the author
• About the book
• Citability of the eBook
• Contents
• 1 Ethics in Ancient Greece
• 1 Pre-Socratics
• 1.1 Thales of Miletus
• 1.2 Pythagoras of Samos
• 1.3 Democritus of Abdera
• 1.4 Heraclitus of Ephesus
• 2 Sophists
• 3 Socrates
• 3.1 Question of virtue
• 3.2 Socratic method
• 3.2.1 Elenctic method
• 3.2.2 Maieutic method
• 3.3 Voice of the daimonion
• 4 Plato
• 4.1 The concept of the human soul
• 4.2 The idea of Good
• 5 Aristotle
• 5.1 Eudaimonia
• 5.2 Theory of virtues
• 5.3 The principle of the golden mean
• 5.4 Theory of friendship
• 5.5 Man as zoon politikon
• 6 Aristippus of Cyrene
• 7 Epicurus of Samos
• 7.1 Happiness as the purpose of moral life
• 7.2 Four-part remedy
• 8 Cynics
• 8.1 Antisthenes
• 8.2 Diogenes of Sinope
• 9 Zeno of Citium
• 9.1 The sage’s ideal
• 9.2 The non-gradation of virtue
• 9.3 Social ethics
• 10 Pyrrho of Elis
• 2 Ethics in Ancient Rome
• 1 Neoplatonic Ethics
• 1.1 Philo of Alexandria
• 1.2 Plotinus
• 1.2.1 Reincarnation of individual souls
• 1.2.2 The problem of evil
• 2 Roman Stoicism
• 2.1 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• 2.1.1 Fatalistic understanding of nature
• 2.1.2 Virtue as submission to nature
• 2.1.3 Social ethics
• 2.1.4 Condemnation of slavery
• 2.2 Epictetus
• 2.2.1 Happiness as a goal in human life
• 2.2.2 Ethics as a moral self-improvement of the individual
• 2.2.3 The postulate of universal brotherhood
• 2.3 Marcus Aurelius
• 2.3.1 Principles of morally just conduct
• 3 Roman Eclecticism
• 3.1 Cicero
• 3.1.1 The theory of good
• 3.1.2 The law of nature, morality and the concept of good governance
• 4 Roman Epicureanism
• 4.1 Titus Lucretius Carus
• 4.1.1 Rational ethics
• 4.1.2 Social agreement
• 5 Ethics of Early Christianity
• 5.1 Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
• 5.2 St. Augustine of Hippo
• 5.2.1 Theocentric eudaimonism
• 5.2.2 The concept of grace
• 5.2.3 Where does evil come from?
• 3 Selection of Source Texts
• Bibliography
• Source texts
• Studies
• Annex
• Figures