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, 2 vols., 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 Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series.Robert Mayhew is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. 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.

• Introduction; Two Post-Aristotle Ethical Treatises in the Corpus Aristotelicum?; 1. Eudemian Arguments: Logic, Physics and Ethics – Stephen White; 2. An Early Peripatetic Reception of the Nutritive Soul: Magna Moralia 1.4.1185a14-35 – David Lefebvre; Animals and Plants in Early Peripatos; 3. Animals and Ethics in Aristotle and Theophrastus: A Progressive Path between Concepts and Conceptions – Arnaud Zucker; 4. Theophrastus’ Plant Ethics – Sophia Connell; Ethics in Theophrastus; 5. The Ethics of Aristotle as Background of Theophrastus’ Characters – Charlotte Murgier; 6. Theophrastus on the Psychology and Ethics of Mockery – Pierre Destrée; 7. Anecdotes and Ethics: Theophrastus, Parrhasius, and the Forms of Life – Wei Cheng; 8. Theophrastus on Misfortune and Happiness – Georgia Tsouni; Peripatetic Ethics After Theophrastus; 9. Beyond Biography, Anecdotes, and Erudition: Ethical Aspects and Contexts in the Fragments of Hieronymus of Rhodes – Marco Pelucchi; 10. The Nature and Origin of Virtue: Three Peripatetic Accounts in Doxography C – Jan Szaif; 11. Stoic Foundations in Doxography C? – Brad Inwood; 12. Aspasius on Earlier Peripatetic Debates on Aristotelian Ethics – Myrto Hatzimichali.