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Interest in Theophrastus, Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School, has increased considerably since the 1992 publication of Theophastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Works, Thought and Life. Now comes an extensive commentary on the ethical sources. It considers Theophrastus in relation to Aristotle, to other members of the Peripatos and to the Stoic philosophers who became Theophrastus' rivals. Special attention is given to Theophrastus' insistence that virtue by itself cannot guarantee happiness. Also to the difference between manners and moral virtue, the relation between innate character and fate, the value of marriage and how animal behavior relates to that of human beings.
Price: $357.00
Pages: 880
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophia Antiqua
Publication Date:
10 December 2010
ISBN: 9789004194229
Format: Hardcover
"I cannot, in a brief review, do justice to this massive and magisterial piece of scholarship. […] Each section reads very much like an essay on its subject, reflecting the breadth and depth of the author’s understanding of this material and the secondary literature on it.”
Robert Mayhew, Seton Hall University, in BMCR 2011.12.52 (2011)
Robert Mayhew, Seton Hall University, in BMCR 2011.12.52 (2011)
William Fortenbaugh, Ph.D. (1964) in Classics, University of Pennsylania is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is the author of Aristotle on Emotion, an edition of Theophrastus' work On Sweat and a commentary on Theophrastus' rhetoric.