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Peripatetic Ethics in Theophrastus and After

Peripatetic Ethics in Theophrastus and After

Hardcover

Series: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1041352433
ISBN13: 9781041352433
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume presents up-to-date insights into the ethical theories of Aristotle's followers, beginning with his colleagues Theophrastus and Eudemus and covering a broad range of figures, topics and applications up to the Imperial Roman period.

The ethical work of the Peripatetic school in antiquity included a number of authors who engaged with Aristotle's own legacy as well as emerging Hellenistic schools of philosophy, particularly Stoicism and Epicureanism. Much of the evidence for these views is fragmentary; this book guides readers through Peripatetic ethics in Theophrastus' work and beyond, encompassing a wide selection of philosophers, works and topics. It explores two controversial ethical treatises attributed to Aristotle but arguably not by him (the Eudemian Ethics and the Magna Moralia); fresh looks at animal and plant ethics in the School of Aristotle; four studies of various aspects of the ethical thought of Theophrastus; and another four studies on Peripatetic ethical thought after Theophrastus, from Hieronymus of Rhodes in the 3rd century BCE to Aspasius in the 2nd century CE.

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