Merit and Responsibility : A Study in Greek Values

by: Adkins, A.W.H.

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Merit and responsibility : a study in Greek values
Author:A. W. H. Adkins

Contents:
I. Moral responsibility and Greek moral thoughT
A. Introduction
B. The function of the present discussion
C. The oblique approach
D. The relevance of writers before Plato
II. Homer: Free will and compulsion
A. Introduction
B. Human compulsion
C. The gods as cause
i. The nature of the Homeric gods
ii. The effects of the Homeric belief
D. Moira
i. The nature of the belief
ii. The effects of the belief
E. Possible dangers of the Homeric position
III. Homer: Mistake and moral error
A. Introductory
B. The most important qualities
i. The Agathos and his Arete
ii. The justification of the Arete-standard
iii. Women's Arete in the Homeric poems
iv. Arete and the co-operative excellences
v. Persuasive Definitions in Homer
C. Other Terms of value
D. The results
i. The claims of society
ii. The Agathos and the sanction of Homeric Society
iii. The claims of the Agathos
IV. 'Justice': Homer to the fifth century
A. The problem
B. Justice and the gods
i. Non-moral gods
ii. Moral gods
C. Justice and Arete
i. Homer and Hesiod
ii. Tyrtaeus
iii. Xenophanes and Solon
iv. Theognis
V. 'Pollution'
A. The nature of the belief
i. 'Pollution' in Homer and Hesiod
ii. 'Pollution' in later winters
B. The origins of the belief
C. The problems for morals
D. Solutions
VI. External interference
A. 'Common sense'
B. Abnormal situations
C. Sophistic influences
VII. The ways of God to man
A.A possible solution?
B. Hosios and Eusebes
i. Quiet moral usages
ii. The barter-relationship
iii. 'Pollution'
iv. Conclusions
C. Dikaiosune Again
VIII. The persistence of traditional values
A.A less controversial approach
B. General standards
i. 'Shame'
ii. The Agathos-Standard
iii. The shameful and the ugly
C. Traditional Arete and moral responsibility
i. The sanction
ii. Success and failure
IX. The infiltration of 'morality'
A. Agathos and Kakos
b. Aischron and Kalon
i. Values 'out of step'
ii. The new uses
C. Aischron versus Dikaion
D. Some effects
X. The good citizen and the just man: Assembly and law courts
A. The Dikaios as the more efficient administrator
B. The Agathos polites
i. The Assembly
ii. The law courts
C. Arete and Dikaiosune in court
i. Trierarch and Choregus
ii. Success and failure
D.A belief enlightenment
E. The relapse
XI. The administrator, the immoralist, and the ordinary man
A. The administrator
B. 'The ordinary man'
C. The immoralist, at home and abroad
D. The dangers of agreement
XII. Gorund for agreement
A. Introduction
B. The most highly valued man
C. The most valued existence
D. The most powerful terms and the moralist
E. The triple standard of behaviour
XIII. Plato: logic and Elenchus
A. The shame of Socrates
B. The justification of Socrates
i. The apology
ii. The crito
C. The opponents of Socrates
i. Polus and the ordinary man
ii. Callicles and Thrasymachus
XIV. Plato ideal states
A.A change of approach
B. The Republic
i. The method
ii. The nature of the trick
iii. The compatibility of individual and civic eudaimonia
vi. The result
D. The background to Plato's theory of punishment
i. Some implications of ordinary Greek
ii. Platonic additions
iii. Plato and free will
E. Punishment and responsibility
i. The Theory
ii. The effects
F. Plato and 'The ordinary Greek'
XV. Aristotle: analysis
A. Problem and solution
i. A change of emphasis
ii. Eudaimonia, Dei, Kalon
B. Aristotle's analysis of persona responsibility
i. The Eudemian ethics
ii. The Nicomachean ethics
XVI. Aristotle: general ethics
A. Aristotle and Arete
i. Arete and intentions
ii. The sources
iii. The Co-operative Aretai in 'ordinary Greek'
iv. The effects in Aristotle
B. General conclusions

xiv, 380 pages ; 22 cm

Merit and Responsibility : A Study in Greek Values

by: Adkins, A.W.H.

• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1965

Price: 128,00 EURO

1 copy in stock