The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy - Image 1

£70.60

Cambridge University Press The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Name: The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 70.6 GBP
Availability: InStock

Western

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

£71 today · all-time low £69 (Jul 2026) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 30 days · 30 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 30 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £69 (27 days, 90.0%)

Price range: £69 - £74

Price levels: 3 different prices over 30 days

Description

The account of the best life for humans – i.e. a happy or flourishing life – and what it might consist of was the central theme of ancient ethics. But what does it take to have a life that, if not happy, is at least worth living, compared with being dead or never having come into life? This question was also much discussed in antiquity, and David Machek's book reconstructs, for the first time, philosophical engagements with the question from Socrates to Plotinus. Machek's comprehensive book explores ancient views on a life worth living against a background of the pessimistic outlook on the human condition which was adopted by the Greek poets, and also shows the continuities and contrasts between the ancient perspective and modern philosophical debates about biomedical ethics and the ethics of procreation. His rich study of this relatively neglected theme offers a fresh and compelling narrative of ancient ethics.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1009257870
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > History & Schools of Thought > Western
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 April 2023
Listed Since: 24 June 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Ancient Ethics

Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics - Philosophy Book

Life and Meaning: A Philosophical Reader

On Meaning in Life

Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics

Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers

Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought: 23 (Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy)

Life Between Health and Death - Medicine Philosophy Dialogue

Glück - Werte - Sinn: Metaethische, ethische und theologische Zugänge zur Frage nach dem guten Leben

The True and the Good: A Strong Virtue Theory of the Value of Truth

Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy: From Heraclitus to Plotinus

Routledge On the Meaning of Life - Philosophy Book

Summersdale The Little Book of Philosophy - Key Thinkers Guide

Entropic Affirmation: On the Origins of Conflict in Change, Death, and Otherness

What Makes Life Meaningful?: A Debate (Little Debates about Big Questions)

The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy)

Politics of Happiness: Connecting the Philosophical Ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the Political Ideologies of Happiness

The Value and Meaning of Life

Meaning in Life

The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

The Meaning of Life - Routledge Philosophy Introduction

On Moral Law and Quest for Selfhood