Ethics · John Dewey
LITERATURE
Besides the writings of Plato (especially, the _Apology_, _Crito_, _Protagoras_, _Gorgias_, and _Republic_), Xenophon (_Memorabilia_), Aristotle (_Ethics_, _Politics_), Cicero (_On Ends, Laws, Duties_; _On the Nature of the Gods_), Epictetus, Seneca, M. Aurelius, Plutarch, and the fragments of various Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes (especially the _Clouds_) afford valuable material. All the histories of philosophy treat the theoretical side; among them may be mentioned Gomperz (_Greek Thinkers_, 1900-05), Zeller (_Socrates_; _Plato_; _Aristotle_; _Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics_), Windelband, Benn (_Philosophy of Greece_, 1898, chs. i., v.). On the Moral Consciousness: Schmidt, _Ethik der alten Griechen_, 1882. On the social conditions and theories: Poehlmann, _Geschichte des antiken Kommunismus und Sozialismus_, 1893-1901; Doering, _Die Lehre des Sokrates als sociales Reformsystem_, 1895. On the religion: Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, 3 vols., 1896; Rohde, _Psyche_, 1894. On Political Conditions and Theory: Newman, Introd. to _Politics of Aristotle_, 1887; Bradley, _Aristotle's Theory of the State in Hellenica_; Wilamovitz-Moellendorf, _Aristotle und Athen_, 1900. On Nature and Law of Nature: Ritchie, _Natural Rights_, 1895; Burnet, _Int. Journal of Ethics_, vii., 1897, pp. 328-33; Hardy, _Begriff der Physis_, 1884; Voigt, _Die Lehre vom jus naturale_, 1856-75. General: Denis, _Histoire des Theories et des Idees Morales dans l'Antiquite_, 1879; Taylor, _Ancient Ideals_, 1900; Caird, _Evolution of Theology in the Greek Philosophers_, 1904; Janet, _Histoire de la Science Politique dans ses Rapports avec la Morale_, 1887; Grote, _History of Greece_, 4th ed., 1872; _Plato and the Other Companions of Socrates_, 1888.
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