The book “Ancient Ethics” is the first systematic study of the ancient ethics in Russia. Its completeness, comprehensiveness of the investigation of the ethical teachings are in accord with the original interpretation of them as different answers to the same question how to combine virtue with happiness. The heroic longing to immortality is shown to be the inspiring foundation of the ancient philosophizing.
Contents
From the Author
Chapter 1. The Moral Canon of Antiquity: Homer, Hesiod, Seven Sages
1.1 Homer
1.2 Hesiod
1.3 Seven Sages
Chapter 2. Ethics in Early Greek Philosophy
2.1 Anaximander
2.2 Heraclitus
2.3 Pythagoras and The Pythagoreans
2.4 Parmenides
2.5 Empedocles
Chapter 3. Democritus
Chapter 4. The Sophists, Socrates and his Disciples
4.1 The Sophists
4.2 Socrates
4.3 The Socrates’ Disciples
Chapter 5. Plato and Aristotle
5.1 Plato
5.2 Aristotle
Chapter 6. The Ethical Teachings of the Hellenistic Period
6.1 Epicurus
6.2 Stoicism
6.3 Scepticism
Chapter 7. The End of the Ancient Ethics: Plotinus
Addendum
Philosophy and Ethics: The Lessons of Antiquity
The Ethical Works and The Ethical System of Aristotle
The Glossary
The Index of Names