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Ancient Ethics.
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Wundt, Wilhelm Max Titchener, Edward Bradford |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | THE earliest Greek speculation was for the most part cosmological. Hence it took little interest in ethical questions. The sayings ascribed to the mythical or semimythical Seven Sages are crystallisations of popular morality, which cannot be treated as the beginnings of a science. The earliest philosophical schools, however, joined to their philosophical endeavours efforts, primarily reformatory, against the popular religion. The Eleatics, especially, in that opposition to polytheism and the humanising of the nature-gods, which was begun by their founder Xenophanes, cleared the way at least for later ethical speculations. The same thing is true of the religio-philosophical sect of the Pythagoreans, although, in spite of the great stress they laid upon certain external requirements of conduct, they can scarcely be said to have reached the stage of reflection on the subject of $morals.^{1}$ Nor do we find in Heraclitus and Democritus the Atomist anything but isolated ethical $maxims.^{2}$ Nevertheless, 4in the facts that Heraclitus regarded trust in the divine world-order as the source of all human satisfaction, while Democritus, on the other hand, declared cheerfulness and tranquility of temperament to be true happiness, we can see the first flashes of the storm between opposite tendencies which were later to come into conflict. Book Name: Ethics: |
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| DOI | 10.1201/9780429284953-2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-03-05 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Ethics: History and Philosophy of Science Philosophical |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
