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The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

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Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, recollecting and anticipating. We enjoy finding something out. We are pained to discover that a belief we hold is false. We can think back and enjoy or be upset by recalling past events. And we can plan for and enjoy imagining pleasures yet to come. This book is about what Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans and the Cyrenaics had to say about these relationships between pleasure and reason.

Author Biography:

James Warren is a Reader in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He is the author of Epicurus and Democritean Ethics (2002), Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics (2004) and Presocratics (2007), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism (2009) and, with Frisbee Sheffield, The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy (2014). He has published articles on a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy.
Release date Australia
October 19th, 2017
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
1 Line drawings, black and white
Pages
246
Dimensions
152x228x14
ISBN-13
9781107631595
Product ID
26872042

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