Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists /
Riel, Gerd van.
Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists / by Gerd van Riel. - 1 online resource (x, 207 pages) - Philosophia antiqua, v. 85 0079-1687 ; . - Philosophia Antiqua 85. Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and indexes.
Preliminary material / INTRODUCTION / TWO PARADIGMS: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE / EXCURSUS: EPICUREANS AND STOICS / THE STANDARD NEOPLATONIC THEORY: PLOTINUS AND PROCLUS / A DIFFERENT VIEW: DAMASCIUS' COMMENTARY ON THE PHILEBUS / CONCLUSION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / Index rerum / Index locorum / Index nominum / PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA / GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.
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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 performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus . The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.
9789004321106
10.1163/9789004321106 DOI
00029771
Pleasure.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Pleasure.
B187.P57 / R54 2000
171/.4/0938
Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists / by Gerd van Riel. - 1 online resource (x, 207 pages) - Philosophia antiqua, v. 85 0079-1687 ; . - Philosophia Antiqua 85. Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194) and indexes.
Preliminary material / INTRODUCTION / TWO PARADIGMS: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE / EXCURSUS: EPICUREANS AND STOICS / THE STANDARD NEOPLATONIC THEORY: PLOTINUS AND PROCLUS / A DIFFERENT VIEW: DAMASCIUS' COMMENTARY ON THE PHILEBUS / CONCLUSION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / Index rerum / Index locorum / Index nominum / PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA / GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- GERD VAN RIEL -- J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 performance of an activity. After an excursus on Epicureans and Stoics, the book concentrates on Neoplatonism, opposing the 'standard Neoplatonic view' of Plotinus and Proclus to the original viewpoint of Damascius' commentary on Plato's Philebus . The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly pleasurable, life.
9789004321106
10.1163/9789004321106 DOI
00029771
Pleasure.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Pleasure.
B187.P57 / R54 2000
171/.4/0938