Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics

Georgia Tsouni is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer (Assistentin) to the Chair of History of Philosophy at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. She has published extensively on Aristotelian/Peripatetic and Stoic ethical and political philosophy, including a new edition and translation of Didymus' Summary of Peripatetic Ethics, which survives in the Byzantine anthology of Stobaeus.

• Introduction; Part I: 1. Antiochus in Rome; 2. 'Old Academic' history of philosophy; Part II. The Ethics of the 'Old Academy': 3. Oikeiōsis and the telos; 4. Self-love in the Antiochean-Peripatetic account; 5. 'Cradle arguments' and the objects of oikeiōsis; 6. Oikeiōsis towards theoretical virtue; 7. Social oikeiōsis; 8. The Antiochean conception of the happy life; 9. Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account; Epilogue.

'All in all, this book is a fine piece of scholarship, providing as it does an accurate analysis of Antiochus' distinctive position in ethics, and specifically his reclaiming oikeiosis-theory for Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition.' John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review