Peripatetic Ethics in Theophrastus and After

Arnaud Zucker is Professor of Greek Literature at the University Côte d’Azur, Nice (France). His publications include Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology: Theory and Practice, two volumes, an edition of the Epitome of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and (as co-editor) The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science.Oliver Hellmann is außerplanmäßiger Professor in the Department of Classical Philology, Trier University (Germany). He is co-editor of Phaenias of Eresus and The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science in the series Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities.Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (United States). His publications include Aristotle’s Lost Homeric Problems and Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds, and he is co-editor of four volumes published by Routledge in the series Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities.

• Preface, List of Contributors, Introduction, PART 1: Two Post-Aristotle Ethical Treatises in the Corpus Aristotelicum?, 1. Eudemian Arguments: Logic, Physics, and Ethics, 2. An Early Peripatetic Reception of the Nutritive Soul: Magna Moralia 1.4.1185a14–35, PART 2: Animals and Plants in the Early Peripatos, 3. Animals and Ethics in Aristotle and Theophrastus: A Progressive Path between Concepts and Conceptions, 4. Theophrastus’ Plant Ethics, PART 3: Ethics in Theophrastus, 5. The Ethics of Aristotle as Background of Theophrastus’ Characters, 6. Theophrastus on the Psychology and Ethics of Mockery, 7. Anecdotes and Ethics: Theophrastus, Parrhasius, and the Forms of Life, 8. Theophrastus on Misfortune and Happiness, PART 4: Peripatetic Ethics after Theophrastus, 9. Beyond Biography, Anecdotes, and Erudition: Ethical Aspects and Contexts in the Fragments of Hieronymus of Rhodes, 10. The Nature and Origin of Virtue: Three Peripatetic Accounts in Doxography C, 11. Stoic Foundations in Doxography C?, 12. Aspasius on Earlier Peripatetic Debates on Aristotelian Ethics, Index rerum, Index nominum, Index locorum