Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists (Philosophia Antiqua, Band 85)

Riel, Paul

 
9789004117976: Pleasure and the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists (Philosophia Antiqua, Band 85)
ISBN 10: 9004117970 ISBN 13: 9789004117976
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2000

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gerd van Riel, Ph.D. (1997) in Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), is a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium) at the Leuven Institute of Philosophy. He has published on Plato's Philebus and its influence in ancient philosophy. His articles include Does a Perfect Activity Necessarily Yield Pleasure? in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 7 (1999).

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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004117970
ISBN 13 
9789004117976
Einband
Ledereinband
Anzahl der Seiten
207
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