Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy: The Ninth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

by Fiona Leigh (Editor), Margaret Hampson (Editor)

Overview

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology encompasses the study of those aspects of human psychology relevant to our moral lives—desire, emotion, ethical knowledge, practical moral reasoning, and moral imagination—and their role in apprehending or responding to sources of value. This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy, exploring central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools. Through a series of chapters and responses, these contributions challenge and develop interpretations of ancient views on topics from Socratic intellectualism to the nature of appetitive desires and their relation to goodness, from the role of pleasure and pain in virtue, to our capacities for memory, anticipation and choice and their role in practical action, to the question of the sufficiency or otherwise of the virtues for a flourishing human life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192858108
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/22/2023
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Fiona Leigh, Associate Professor and Director, Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy, University College London,Margaret Hampson, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Fiona Leigh is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of the Keeling Centre in Ancient Philosophy at UCL. From 2007 to 2009, she held a post-doctoral position in Philosophy at King's College London and in 2009 joined the Department of Philosophy at UCL. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at Monash University and has published papers on Plato and in ancient philosophy, and edited and co-edited several volumes in ancient philosophy.

Margaret Hampson is a lecturer in ancient philosophy at the University of St Andrews. From 2019 to 2021, she held an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin, before which she was a Research Associate at the Keeling Centre for Ancient Philosophy, UCL. She completed her PhD at University College London and has published papers on Aristotle's ethics and moral psychology.

Table of Contents

1. Psychology and Value in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Margaret Hampson2. Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato's Early Dialogues, Rachel Barney3. Comments on Rachel Barney, 'Intellectualism and the Method of Hypothesis in Plato's Early Dialogues', Terence Irwin4. Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV, Jessica Moss5. The Blind Desires of Republic IV, Matthew Evans6. Comments on Matthew Evans, 'The Blind Desires of Republic IV' and Jessica Moss, 'Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV', Mary Margaret McCabe7. Plato on the Object of Thirst: Comments on Jessica Moss, 'Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV', A.W. Price8. Courage and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics, Raphael Woolf9. Comments on Raphael Woolf, 'Courage and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics', Sarah Broadie10. Memory, Anticipation, Pleasure, James Warren11. Modelling the Memory and Anticipation of Pleasure: Comments on James Warren's 'Memory, Anticipation, Pleasure', Margaret Hampson and Katharine O'Reilly12. Three Mistakes about Stoic Ethics, Daniel Russell13. Comments on Daniel Russell, 'Three Mistakes about Stoic Ethics', David Sedley