Cicero's De Finibus

Julia Annas is Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She has worked in ancient ethics and in the increasingly large area of contemporary virtue ethics, which has stimulated an interest in ancient ethics other than Aristotle. She wrote the introduction and notes to the recent translation of the De Finibus by Raphael Woolf. Gábor Betegh is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Christ's College. He has worked on various aspects of ancient philosophy, including Hellenistic philosophy and ethics.

• Introduction Julia Annas; 1. Cicero's sceptical methods: the example of the De Finibus Charles Brittain; 2. Epicurean pleasure in Cicero's De Finibus James Warren; 3. Cicero and Epicurean virtues (De Finibus 1-2) Pierre-Marie Morel; 4. Epicurus on the importance of friendship in the good life (De Finibus 1.65-70; 2.78-85) Dorothea Frede; 5. Honor and the honorable: Cato's discourse in De Finibus 3 Margaret Graver; 6. The voice of nature Brad Inwood; 7. Sententia explosa: criticism of Stoic ethics in De Finibus 4 Anna Maria Ioppolo; 8. Structure, standards and Stoic moral progress in De Finibus 4 Thomas Bénatouïl; 9. Antiochus' theory of oikeiōsis Christopher Gill.