This monograph presents a full picture of Galen’s ethics. It expounds his view on human character and morality as based on his account of human nature (including his reception of Plato and Aristotle). This book reveals Galen’s substantial contribution to the philosophical debate on the parts and powers of our soul and their connection with the body. Thereby, it also delves into the lively academic debate on the best handling of emotions like anger or distress including their medical implications. Paying attention also to the religious side of Galen’s moral thought, the monograph contributes to a complete recollection of Galen—not only as the doctor but also as the ethical philosopher he was.
erschienen Juni 2025
bei Brill
ISBN:
978-90-04-72780-9
Festeinband
[DE] 176,55 €net 165,00 € excl. VAT
Review:
This wonderfully produced book brings together the English translations of Michael of Ephesus’ commentary on Nicomachean Ethics 10 and Themistius’ philosophical oration On Virtue for the well-known and renowned Bloomsbury series ‘The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle’. In the footsteps of the earlier volumes in this series, the English translations of both these texts are prefaced by textual and historical introductions to the texts and authors, and are followed by a rich apparatus of notes, bibliography, and glossary.
Michele Trizio , Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs. The first is Michael of Ephesus' 12th-century commentary on Book 10 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, written (alongside his commentaries on Books 5 and 9) to fill gaps in the Neoplatonists' commentaries from the 6th century. He recognizes that lives of practicality and philosophy may be combined, and gives his own account of the superiority of the contemplative.The second is Themistius' text On Virtue, written in the 4th century AD. He was an important teacher and commentator on Aristotle, an orator and leading civil servant in Constantinople. His philosophical oration is here argued to be written in support of the Emperor Julian's insistence against the misuse of free speech by a Cynic Heraclius, who had satirised him. Julian had previously criticised Themistius but here he combines his political and philosophical roles in seeking to mend relations with his former pupil.
erschienen Dezember 2018
ISBN:
9781350085091
Bloomsbury Academic
Series:
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Bloomsbury Publishing