TY - BOOK ID - 3106063 TI - The ethics of Philodemus PY - 2011 SN - 9780199292172 0199292175 0191711772 0199640122 9786611154929 128115492X 0191537705 9780199640126 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Philodemus, KW - Ethics. KW - Ethics KW - Filodemo, KW - Philodem, KW - Philodème, KW - Philodēmos, KW - Philodemus KW - Filodemo KW - Ethics, Ancient KW - Philodemus Gadarensis KW - Philodemus, - approximately 110 BC-approximately 40 BC - Ethics KW - Philodemus, - approximately 110 BC-approximately 40 BC UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3106063 AB - Voula Tsouna presents a comprehensive study of the ethics of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus, who taught Virgil, influenced Horace, and was praised by Cicero. His works have only recently become available to modern readers, through the decipherment of a papyrus carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. . Tsouna examines Philodemus' theoretical principles in ethics, his contributions to moral psychology, his method, his conception of therapy, and his therapeutic techniques. Part I begins with an outline of the fundamental principles of Philodemus' ethics in connection with the canonical views of the Epicurean school, and highlights his own original contributions. In addition to examining central features of Philodemus' hedonism, Tsouna analyses central concepts in his moral psychology, notably: his conception of vices, which she compares with that of the virtues; his account of harmful or unacceptable emotions or passions; and his theory of corresponding acceptable emotions or 'bites'. ER -