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Author Cooper, John M. (John Madison), 1939-

Title Knowledge, nature, and the good [electronic resource] : essays on ancient philosophy / John M. Cooper.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.

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Description x, 410 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-379) and indexes.
Contents Knowledge -- Method and science in On ancient medicine -- Plato on sense-perception and knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186) -- Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the independence of oratory from philosophy -- Arcesilaus : Socratic and skeptic -- Nature -- Aristotle on natural teleology -- Hypothetical necessity -- Two notes on Aristotle on mixture -- Metaphysics in Aristotle's embryology -- Stoic autonomy -- The good -- Two theories of justice -- Plato and Aristotle on "finality" and "(Self)sufficiency" -- Moral theory and moral improvement : Seneca -- Moral theory and moral improvement : Marcus Aurelius.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0691117233 (alk. paper)
0691117241 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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