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Virtue and happiness : essays in honour of Julia Annas / edited by Rachana Kamtekar.

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Virtue and happiness : essays in honour of Julia Annas / edited by Rachana Kamtekar.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Additional Authors
  • Annas, Julia.
  • Kamtekar, Rachana, 1965-
Description
x, 354 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
This volume presents 16 specially written essays on virtue and happiness, and the treatment of these topics by thinkers from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. It is published in honour of Julia Annas, one of the leading scholars in the field.
Series Statement
Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Supplementary volume ; 2012
Uniform Title
  • Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Supplementary volume ; 2012.
  • University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Happiness > Philosophy
  • Virtue > Philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Rachana Kamtekar -- Socrates' refutation of Gorgias : Gorgias 447 C-461 B / Mark L. McPherran -- Justice writ large / Jonathan Barnes -- Plato on the power of ignorance / Nicholas D. Smith -- The role of women in Plato's Republic / C.C.W. Taylor -- Justice as a virtue of the soul / Paul Woodruff -- Injury, injustice, and the involuntary in the Laws / Malcolm Schofield -- Aristotle's virtues of greatness / Daniel C. Russell -- Did the stoics invent human rights? / Richard Bett -- Excessiveness and our natural development / Rosalind Hursthouse -- Chrysippus and the action theory of Aristo of Chios / Anna Maria Ioppolo -- How unified is stoicism anyway? / Brad Inwood -- Plotinus, Ennead 1.4 as critique of earlier eudaimonism / A.A. Long -- Eudaimonia and practical rationality / Paul Bloomfield -- Psychological eudaimonism and interpretation in Greek ethics / Mark LeBar and Nathaniel Goldberg -- How (and maybe why) to grieve like an ancient philosopher / Scott LaBarge.
ISBN
  • 9780199646043 (hbk.)
  • 019964604X (hbk.)
  • 9780199646050 (pbk.)
  • 0199646058 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011294753
OCLC
792747094
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library