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Issues in Ancient Philosophy Ser.
Aristotle on Moral Responsibility : Character and Cause
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 1994 by Blackwell Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-18527-7, ISBN: 0-631-18527-5

"What makes an agent subject to moral expectations and evaluations, and what makes such an agent subject to moral evaluation for particular things he or she does? In this book, Sauve Meyer sets out to illuminate Aristotle's response to these central questions of ethics. Contrary to those who think moral responsibility is a peculiarly modern notion, Sauve Meyer shows that Aristotle's discussions of voluntariness are concerned with the cen ..."






Aristotle on Moral Responsibility(Reprint)
Character and Cause
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969742-7, ISBN: 0-19-969742-6

"This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility--albeit one with important differences from modern theories. Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the dialectical argument in the Eudemian ..."






Aristotle on Moral Responsibility(Reprint)
Character and Cause
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-969743-4, ISBN: 0-19-969743-4

"This is a reissue, with new introduction, of Susan Sauve Meyer's 1993 book, in which she presents a comprehensive examination of Aristotle's accounts of voluntariness in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. She makes the case that these constitute a theory of moral responsibility--albeit one with important differences from modern theories. Highlights of the discussion include a reconstruction of the dialectical argument in the Eudemian ..."






Plato(1st Edition)
Laws 1 and 2 (Clarendon Plato Series)
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-960409-8, ISBN: 0-19-960409-6

"Susan Sauvé Meyer presents a new translation of Plato's Laws, 1 and 2. In these opening books of Plato's last work, a Cretan, a Spartan, and an Athenian discuss legislative theory, moral psychology, and the criteria for evaluating art. The interlocutors compare the relative merits of different nomoi (laws, practices, institutions), in particular, the communal meals (sussitia) practiced in Sparta and Crete and the paradigmatically Atheni ..."






Ancient Ethics(1st Edition)
A Critical Introduction (Hardback)
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-94026-9, ISBN: 0-415-94026-5

""This book will be ideal for anyone beginning an introductory course in ancient ethics or moral theory, anyone interested in learning more about the history of ethical philosophy, or simply those who wish to learn "how to live well"."






Imperialism at Home(1st Edition)
Race and Victorian Women's Fiction (Reading Women Writing)
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1996 by Ncrol
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3132-6, ISBN: 0-8014-3132-8

"The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in En ..."






Imperialism at Home(1st Edition)
Race and Victorian Women's Fiction (Reading Women Writing)
by Susan Sauve Meyer
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 1996 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-8255-7, ISBN: 0-8014-8255-0

"The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which to explore the relationships between men and women at home in En ..."






Virtue, Happiness, Knowledge
Themes from the Work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin
by David O. Brink, Christopher Shields, Susan Sauve Meyer
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-881727-7, ISBN: 0-19-881727-4

"Fifteen leading philosophers explore a set of themes from the pioneering work of Gail Fine and Terence Irwin, in ancient philosophy but also in later periods and in systematic philosophy. The contributors discuss knowledge, rhetoric, freedom and practical reason, virtue and the good life, ethics and politics in Plato and Aristotle and beyond. The editors offer an introduction charting the scholarly contributions of Fine and Irwin and as ..."






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by Susan Sauve Meyer
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