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Ancient Greek Moral Psychology
Name：
Hendrik Lorenz
Nationality：
Germany
Academic Title：Professor
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Princeton University
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Undergraduate
Master
Doctoral student
English
Basic knowledge of the history of Western philosophy
Lectures and discussions
Attendance and participation 20%
assignment and mini-papers 80%
2 credits
Prof. Hendrik Lorenz is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His main
research areas are ancient psychology, ethics, and natural philosophy from Plato
to late ancient philosophy. He has published a book on Plato's and Aristotle's moral
psychology (The Brute Within, Oxford 2006) and numerous articles on Plato and
Aristotle. He has also published a paper on Stoic moral psychology, focusing on
Chrysippus and Posidonius. Among other topics, he is currently working on a paper
on Plotinus' conception of the imagination, and on a book on Books 5-7 of Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics.
The course offers a survey of ancient Greek moral psychology from Socrates to at
least the Hellenistic period. The aim is to study in considerable detail the central
philosophical theories of human motivation offered by the key ancient thinkers
(Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the early Stoics, and Epicurus), and to place these
theories in the context of their psychological and ethical theories. The main texts
to study will be Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. We will also
have occasion to discuss the moral psychology of the Eudemian Ethics, which in some
ways is closer to Plato's thinking in the Republic and the Laws than Aristotle's
later ethical treatise is. We will end with a brief survey of Plotinus' theory of
human motivation.
LECTURE ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction to the course
1.2 City and Soul in Plato's Republic
1.3 Plato's Tripartite Soul
LECTURE TWO: THE VIRTUES IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC
2.1 The definitions of the four virtues in Republic 4
2.2 Dynamic conceptions of the virtues in Republic 6 and 7
LECTURE THREE: "SOCRATES":
3.1 Reading Platonic dialogues
3.2 The historical Socrates and the "Socrates" character of the Socratic dialogues
3.3 Socratic intellectualism
LECTURE FOUR: THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ARISTOTLE'S EUDEMIAN ETHICS
4.1 Happiness and virtue in the Eudemian Ethics
4.2 Virtues of Intellect and of Character
4.3 The role of character-virtue in the psychological life of the virtuous person
Due first minipaper
LECTURE FIVE: THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS:
5.1 Virtues of Character and of Intellect in the Nicomachean Ethics
5.2 The character-virtues as rational states
5.3 Character-virtue as a state that issues decisions
LECTURE SIX: PRACTICAL WISDOM, WISDOM AND HAPPINESS
6.1 The nature of practical wisdom, and its role in the cognitive life of the
virtuous person
6.2 What is wisdom and what role does it play in the well-lived human life?
6.3 Three conceptions of human happiness
LECTURE SEVEN: STOIC AND EPICUREAN MORAL PSYCHOLOGY:
7.1 Chrysippus on the virtues as states of reason
7.2 Posidonius: a Platonizing Stoic?
7.3 Epicurus on pleasure and the value of the virtues
LECTURE EIGHT: PLOTINUS ON THE SELF AND MOTIVATION:
8.1 Different conceptions of the self in Plotinus
8.2 Plotinus on appetite, spirit, and reason
8.3 Plotinus on the virtues
Plato, Complete Works, ed. John Cooper, Indianapolis 1997
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, tr. B. Inwood and R. Woolf, Cambridge 2013
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (2nd Edition), tr. T. Irwin, Indianapolis 1999
A. A. Long & D. N. Sedley, Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge 1987
Plotinus, Enneads I. 1-9 and IV, tr. A. H. Armstrong, Cambridge, Mass. 1966 and 1984
J. Cooper, Pursuits of Wisdom, Princeton 2012
H. Lorenz, The Brute Within, Oxford 2006