Princeton Univ Pr Books

Cooper John M. 
edizioni Princeton Univ Pr collana Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback), 1998

Cooper John M. 
edizioni Princeton Univ Pr collana Princeton Univ Pr (Paperback), 1998

This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient...

Lear Gabriel Richardson  Richardson Lear Gabriel 
edizioni Princeton Univ Pr collana Princeton Univ Pr (Hardcover), 2004

Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle'sNicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because...