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Changing Our Minds: Democritus on What is Up to Us

In Pierre Destrée, R. Salles & Marco Antonio De Zingano (eds.), Up to Us: Studies on Causality and Responsibility in Ancient Philosophy. Academia Verlag. pp. 1-18 (2014)

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  1. Luck in Aristotle's Physics and Ethics.Monte Johnson - 2015 - In Devin Henry & Karen Margrethe Nielsen (eds.), Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle's Science and Ethics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. pp. 254-275.
    I discuss how Aristotle’s formulation of the problem of moral luck relates to his natural philosophy. I review well-known passages from Nicomachean Ethics I/X and Eudemian Ethics I/VII and Physics II, but in the main focus on EE VII 14 (= VIII 2). I argue that Aristotle’s position there (rejecting the elimination of luck, but reducing luck so far as possible to incidental natural and intelligent causes) is not only consistent with his treatment of luck in Physics II, but is (...)
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  • Protreptic Aspects of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.Monte Johnson & D. S. Hutchinson - 2014 - In Ronald Polansky (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 383-409.
    We hope to show that the overall protreptic plan of Aristotle's ethical writings is based on the plan he used in his published work Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy), by highlighting those passages that primarily offer hortatory or protreptic motivation rather than dialectical argumentation and analysis, and by illustrating several ways that Aristotle adapts certain arguments and examples from his Protrepticus. In this essay we confine our attention to the books definitely attributable to the Nicomachean Ethics (thus excluding the common books).
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  • (1 other version)Ontological relativity and other essays.Willard Van Orman Quine (ed.) - 1969 - New York: Columbia University Press.
    This volume consists of the first of the John Dewey Lectures delivered under the auspices of Columbia University's Philosophy Department as well as other essays by the author. Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by Professor Quine in 'Word and Objects', the essays included herein both support and expand those doctrines.
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  • Ethics and Physics in Democritus, II.Gregory Vlastos - 1946 - Philosophical Review 55 (1):53-64.
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  • The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments.[author unknown] - 1999 - University of Toronto Press.
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  • Démocrite: grains de poussière dans un rayon de soleil.Jean Salem - 1996 - Paris: Vrin.
    Grains de poussiere dans un rayon de soleil... poesie du discontinu que la lumiere de l'entendement met a jour, verite du mobile et du minuscule: l'atomisme de Democrite porte, assurement, a rever. A l'aide des nombreux temoignages et fragments reunis par Diels et Luria, J. Salem a souhaite retrouver l'unite d'inspiration qui dut presider a cette oeuvre encyclopedique. Il est tout a fait possible de distinguer l'immense silhouette de Democrite dans maints textes de l'Antiquite: aussi est-il fort tentant de reconstituer (...)
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  • An Argument for Incompatibilism.Peter van Inwagen - 1982 - In Gary Watson (ed.), Free will. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • (1 other version)Did Epicurus discover the Free-Will Problem?Susanne Bobzien - 2000 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 19:287-337.
    ABSTRACT: I argue that there is no evidence that Epicurus dealt with the kind of free-will problem he is traditionally associated with; i.e. that he discussed free choice or moral responsibility grounded on free choice, or that the "swerve" was involved in decision processes. Rather, for Epicurus, actions are fully determined by the agent's mental disposition at the outset of the action. Moral responsibility presupposes not free choice but that the person is unforced and causally responsible for the action. This (...)
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  • Pleasure, Knowledge and Sensation in Democritus.C. C. W. Taylor - 1967 - Phronesis 12 (1):6-27.
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  • The Inadvertent Conception and Late Birth of the Free-Will Problem.Susanne Bobzien - 1998 - Phronesis 43 (2):133-175.
    ABSTRACT: In this paper I argue that the ‘discovery’ of the problem of causal determinism and freedom of decision in Greek philosophy is the result of a combination and mix-up of Aristotelian and Stoic thought in later antiquity; more precisely, a (mis-)interpretation of Aristotle’s philosophy of deliberate choice and action in the light of Stoic theory of determinism and moral responsibility. The (con-)fusion originates with the beginnings of Aristotle scholarship, at the latest in the early 2nd century AD. It undergoes (...)
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  • Spontaneity, Democritean Causality and Freedom.Monte Ransome Johnson - 2009 - Elenchos 30 (1):5-52.
    Critics have alleged that Democritus’ ethical prescriptions (“gnomai”) are incompatible with his physics, since his atomism seems committed to necessity or chance (or an awkward combination of both) as a universal cause of everything, leaving no room for personal responsibility. I argue that Democritus’ critics, both ancient and contemporary, have misunderstood a fundamental concept of his causality: a cause called “spontaneity”, which Democritus evidently considered a necessary (not chance) cause, compatible with human freedom, of both atomic motion and human actions. (...)
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  • Freedom evolves.Daniel Clement Dennett - 2003 - New York: Viking Press.
    Daniel C. Dennett is a brilliant polemicist, famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies. Over the last thirty years, he has played a major role in expanding our understanding of consciousness, developmental psychology, and evolutionary theory. And with such groundbreaking, critically acclaimed books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea (a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist), he has reached a huge general and professional audience. In this new book, Dennett shows that evolution is the key to resolving the ancient problems (...)
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  • Epicurus and Democritean ethics: an archaeology of ataraxia.James Warren - 2002 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The Epicurean philosophical system has enjoyed much recent scrutiny, but the question of its philosophical ancestry remains largely neglected. It has often been thought that Epicurus owed only his physical theory of atomism to the fifth-century BC philosopher Democritus, but this study finds that there is much in his ethical thought which can be traced to Democritus. It also finds important influences on Epicurus in Democritus' fourth-century followers such as Anaxarchus and Pyrrho, and in Epicurus' disagreements with his own Democritean (...)
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  • Aristotle on the perfect life.Anthony Kenny - 1992 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    An authoritative exposition of Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness, which is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics today. Kenny helped to set the terms of the debate 25 years ago. In his latest book, he refines his view on the relationship between the Nichomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics.
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  • Democritus and Plato.R. Ferwerda - 1972 - Mnemosyne 25 (4):337-378.
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  • Democritus and eudaimonism.J. Annas - 2002 - In Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Victor Miles Caston & Daniel W. Graham (eds.), Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate.
    I argue that Democritus can reasonably be regarded as a eudaimonist, though we have to be cautious, given that his work has come down to us in fragments and that some of these are rejected by some scholars. Despite these difficulties, I argue that the best interpretation of his ethical fragments overall is that he is a eudaimonist.
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  • Nomos and phusis in democritus and Plato.C. C. W. Taylor - 2007 - Social Philosophy and Policy 24 (2):1-20.
    This essay explores the treatment of the relation between nature (phusis) and norm or convention (nomos) in Democritus and in certain Platonic dialogues. In his physical theory Democritus draws a sharp contrast between the real nature of things and their representation via human conventions, but in his political and ethical theory he maintains that moral conventions are grounded in the reality of human nature. Plato builds on that insight in the account of the nature of morality in the myth in (...)
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  • (1 other version)Ethics and physics in Democritus I.Gregory Vlastos - 1945 - Philosophical Review 54 (6):578-592.
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  • Epicurus.D. N. Sedley - 1979 - The Classical Review 29 (01):82-.
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  • Philosophie und sprachlicher Ausdruck bei Demokrit, Plato und Aristoteles.Kurt von Fritz - 1963 - Darmstadt,: Wisssenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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  • Democritus and the origins of moral psychology.Charles H. Kahn - 1985 - American Journal of Philology 106 (1):1.
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  • (1 other version)The Greek atomists and Epicurus.Cyril Bailey - 1964 - New York,: Russell & Russell.
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  • The Greek Atomists and Epicurus.[author unknown] - 1928 - Annalen der Philosophie Und Philosophischen Kritik 7:139-139.
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  • The first discovery of the free will issue.Pamela M. Huby - 1967 - Philosophy 42:333-62.
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  • [Doxis Epirysmie] Studien Zu Demokrits Ethik Und Erkenntnislehre.Hermann Langerbeck - 1967 - Weidmann.
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  • (1 other version)Aristotle on the Perfect Life.Anthony Kenny - 1992 - Philosophy 68 (264):250-252.
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  • (14 other versions)Lesefrüchte.U. V. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - 1909 - Hermes 44 (3):445-476.
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  • (1 other version)Aristotle on the Perfect Life.Anthony Kenny - 1992 - Utopian Studies 5 (1):191-191.
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  • (14 other versions)Lesefrüchte.U. V. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - 1925 - Hermes 60 (3):280-316.
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