Regret [electronic resource] : a study in ancient moral psychology / James Warren.

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This work provides a study of regret in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Warren provides a detailed account of their views on the nature of this emotion, as related to their understanding of virtue and ethical knowledge and development.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Warren, James, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Plato.
Aristotle.
Regret.
Stoics.
Online Access:
Oxford Scholarship Online 2021: 2022 (Oxford Academic)
University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection: 2022 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Why regret?
  • 1. Virtue, Metameleia, regret, and remorse
  • 2. Plato on regret, akrasia, and the tyrannical soul
  • 3. Aristotle on regret and counter-voluntary actions
  • 4. Aristotle on regret and akrasia
  • 5. Metameleia and ignorance
  • 6. Stoic regret
  • 7. Gellius and Gallus on the limits of regret
  • 8. Epilogue.