Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists /

Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists /

This volume deals with the general theory of pleasure of Plato and his successors. The first part describes the two paradigms between which all theories of pleasure oscillate: Plato's definition of pleasure as the repletion of a lack, and Aristotle's view that pleasure is the perfect perfo...

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Main Author: Riel, Gerd van.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 85.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

Subjects:

Pleasure.
Philosophy, Ancient.

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Call Number: B187.P57 R54 2000

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • GERD VAN RIEL
  • INTRODUCTION /
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  • TWO PARADIGMS: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE /
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  • EXCURSUS: EPICUREANS AND STOICS /
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  • THE STANDARD NEOPLATONIC THEORY: PLOTINUS AND PROCLUS /
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  • A DIFFERENT VIEW: DAMASCIUS' COMMENTARY ON THE PHILEBUS /
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  • CONCLUSION /
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  • BIBLIOGRAPHY /
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  • Index rerum /
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  • Index locorum /
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  • Index nominum /
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  • PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA /
  • J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.