Overview

This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon.

Challenging Previous Characterisations

Georgia Tsouni challenges previous characterisations of Antiochus's philosophical project as eclectic and shows how his reconstruction of the ethics of the Old Academy demonstrates a careful attempt to update the ancient heritage, and predominantly the views of Aristotle and the Peripatos, in the light of contemporary Stoic-led debates.

Philosophical Significance

This results in both a hermeneutically complex and a philosophically exciting reading of the old tradition. A case in point is the way Antiochus grounds the Old Academic conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis), thus offering a naturalistic version of Aristotelian ethics.