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Contemplative withdrawal in the Hellenistic age
- Source :
- Philosophical Studies. 137:79-89
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2007.
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Abstract
- I reject the traditional picture of philosophical withdrawal in the Hellenistic Age by showing how both Epicureans and Stoics oppose, in different ways, the Platonic and Aristotelian assumption that contemplative activity is the greatest good for a human being. Chrysippus the Stoic agrees with Plato and Aristotle that the greatest good for a human being is virtuous activity, but he denies that contemplation exercises virtue. Epicurus more thoroughly rejects the assumption that the greatest good for a human being is virtuous activity. He maintains that the greatest good for a human being is the tranquility that virtuous activity always and contemplative activity sometimes brings about.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730883 and 00318116
- Volume :
- 137
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Philosophical Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6371ed4d0f6293d57e57029b48ec0a71