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Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy by David Machek (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009257870

ISBN-139781009257879

eBay Product ID (ePID)28058374153

Product Key Features

Book TitleLife Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Number of Pages260 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicGeneral, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorDavid Machek

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN2022-027084

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Machek's book on 'the life worth living' is a fascinating addition to the literature on ancient Greek and Roman ethics. It systematically investigates, with subtlety and rigor, important questions about a worthwhile life and the value of life that are peripheral to or ignored by standard studies of ancient ethical theory.' Richard Kraut, Northwestern University

Dewey Decimal180

Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Plato On Making Life Worth Living By Doing One's Job; 2. Aristotle on the Natural Goodness of Life; 3. Decoupling Happy Life from Life Worth Living in Stoicism; 4. Threshold Nears the Target: Hellenistic Hedonists on the Life Worth Living; 5. Peripatetics on Vicious Humans and Caged Animals; 6. Plotinus on the Worth of Embodied Existence.

SynopsisThe account of the best life for humans - i.e. a happy or flourishing life - and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not happy, is at least worth living, compared with being dead or never having come into life? This question was also much discussed in antiquity, and David Machek's book reconstructs, for the first time, philosophical engagements with the question from Socrates to Plotinus. Machek's comprehensive book explores ancient views on a life worth living against a background of the pessimistic outlook on the human condition which was adopted by the Greek poets, and also shows the continuities and contrasts between the ancient perspective and modern philosophical debates about biomedical ethics and the ethics of procreation. His rich study of this relatively neglected theme offers a fresh and compelling narrative of ancient ethics., The account of the best life for humans - a happy or flourishing life - was the central theme of ancient ethics. This book explores the less-examined ancient theme of what constitutes a life worth living, and reconstructs philosophical engagements with that theme from Socrates to Plotinus.

LC Classification NumberB111.M24 2022