Early Greek ethics

Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.

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Cover -- Early Greek Ethics -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Chapter Abstracts and Contributor Information -- 1. Johan C. Thom, "The Pythagorean Acusmata" -- 2. Shaul Tor, "Xenophanes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Arrogance" -- 3. Mark A. Johnstone, "On the Ethical Dimension of Heraclitus' Thought" -- 4. John Palmer, "Ethics and Natural Philosophy in Empedocles" -- 5. Tazuko A. van Berkel, "The Ethical Life of a Fragment: Three Readings of Protagoras' Man Measure Statement" -- 6. Kurt Lampe, "The Logos of Ethics in Gorgias' Palamedes, On What is Not, and Helen"

7. Joel E. Mann, "Responsibility Rationalized: Action and Pollution in Antiphon's Tetralogies" -- 8. Mauro Bonazzi, "Ethical and Political Thought in Antiphon's Truth and Concord" -- 9. David Conan Wolfsdorf, "The Ethical Philosophy of the Historical Socrates" -- 10. Richard Bett, "Prodicus on the Choice of Heracles, Language, and Religion" -- 11. Monte Ransome Johnson, "The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera" -- 12. Alex Gottesman, "The Sophrosynē of Critias: Aristocratic Ethics after the Thirty Tyrants"

13. Phillip Sidney Horky, "Anonymus Iamblichi, On Excellence (Peri Aretēs): A Lost Defense of Democracy" -…