Terence Irwin

Datos Biográficos

ID995393
NOMBRETerence Irwin
NOMBRESTerence
APELLIDOIrwin
FIRMAIRWIN T
AFILIACIONESCornell University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS71
TOTAL DE CITAS14
TOTAL COMO AUTOR73
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1974
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Some Quotations and Allusions in Aristotle’s Ethics

    Open AccessTerence IrwinARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly2026

    Aristotle’s ethical works mention or quote passages from literary sources to illustrate points of ethical doctrine. Some of these illustrations may be purely decorative. Some may be proverbial, cited without reference to their sources. But in some cases a quotation from, or allusion to, a well-known source may convey to the audience or reader more than is actually said. In some cases Aristotle’s point is intelligible only to an audience who know …

  • Chrysippus and Aristotle on Goods

    Terence IrwinCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Hellenistic…2025

    It is likely that the early Stoics were familiar with Aristotle’s views. This chapter considers a passage in which Plutarch reports that Chrysippus mentions and discusses Aristotle. According to Plutarch, Chrysippus alleges that Aristotle is inconsistent on the question whether one can recognize non-moral goods (including those that Aristotle describes as “external goods” or “goods of fortune”) without abolishing the virtues. If we attend to this…

  • Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy

    André Laks, Terence Irwin et al.BOOKConceptualising Concepts in Greek…2024

  • The Philosophy and History of the Moral ‘Ought’

    Open AccessTerence IrwinARTICLEEthical Theory and Moral Practice2024

    According to G.E.M Anscombe’s paper ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, modern moral philosophy has introduced a spurious concept of moral obligation, and has therefore made a mistake that the Greeks, and Aristotle in particular, avoided. Anscombe argues that the modern concepts of obligation, duty, and the moral ‘ought’ are the remnants of an earlier, but post-Aristotelian conception of ethics, and that they ought to be abandoned. An examination of Ansco…

  • Ethics Through History

    Terence IrwinBOOKEthics Through History2020

    Abstract This book is a selective discussion of the tradition in moral philosophy that runs from Socrates to the present. The main themes: (1) Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and the Stoics take different positions in debates the relation between morality (including right action and the character of virtuous agents) and the human good. Aquinas’ version of an Aristotelian view identifies the human good with the fulfilment of human nature and capacitie…

  • Ethics Through History

    Terence IrwinBOOKEthics Through History2020

  • Aristotle’s Methods of Ethics

    Terence Irwin, Terence H IrwinCHAPTERStudies in Aristotle2018

  • Horace and Practical Philosophy

    Open AccessTerence IrwinCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Ancient…2017

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  • Nature, Law, and Natural Law

    Terence Irwin, Terence H IrwinBOOKThe Oxford Handbook Of The…2013

  • The Philosophy of Antiochus

    Open AccessD N Sedley, David Blank et al.BOOKPhilosophy of Antiochus2012

    Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of the first century BC, an era of radical philosophical change. Some called him a virtual Stoic, but in reality his programme was an updated revival of the philosophy of the 'ancients', meaning above all Plato and Aristotle. His significance lies partly in his enormous influence on Roman intellectuals of the age, including Cicero, Brutus and Varro, partly in his role as the harbinger of a …

  • Antiochus, Aristotle and the Stoics on degrees of happiness

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTERPhilosophy of Antiochus2012

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  • Luther’s Attack on Self-Love

    Terence IrwinARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2012

    Luther’s denials (in his Commentary on Romans) of the natural capacity to acquire moral virtues rest on three assumptions. (1) Virtue requires the pursuit of virtuous action for its own sake. (2) In the state of sin, human aims and motives are all controlled by self-love. (3) Insofar as aims and motives are controlled by self-love, they are sinful and contrary to the demands of morality. Any aspiration to virtue of character, therefore, is misgui…

  • Beauty and morality in Aristotle

    Open AccessT H Irwin, Terence IrwinCHAPTER'Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics'2011

    According to Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics is a work of political science, and political science considers "just and kalon things" (i.3, 1094b14). He devotes a whole book to a discussion of justice, but he offers no explicit discussion of the kalon. The Eudemian Ethics begins by rejecting the view expressed in the Delian epigram, that the most kalon, the best, and the pleasantest are three different things. Aristotle affirms that happiness is…

  • Continuity in the History of Autonomy

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEInquiry2011Citada por: 1Referencias: 9

    Six apparent features of Kant's conception of autonomy appear to differentiate it sharply from anything that we can find in an Aristotelian conception of will and practical reason. (1) Autonomy requires a role for practical reason independent of its instrumental role in relation to non-rational desires. (2) This role belongs to the rational will. (3) This role consists in the rational will's being guided by its own law. (4) This guidance by the l…

  • The Sense and Reference of Kalon in Aristotle

    T H Irwin, Terence IrwinARTICLEClassical Philology2010

  • Development of Ethics - A Historical and Critical Study Vol. 3

    Terence IrwinBOOKDevelopment of Ethics - A…2009

  • The Development of Ethics

    Terence IrwinBOOKDevelopment of Ethics Vol. 22008Citada por: 2

    The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; …

  • Development of Ethics Vol. 2

    Terence IrwinBOOKDevelopment of Ethics Vol. 22008

  • Aristotle’s Discovery of Metaphysics

    Terence Irwin

  • Plato's moral theory

    Terence Irwin

  • Permanent Happiness

    Terence Irwin

  • Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito Critical Essays

    Rachana Kamtekar, Mark L Mcpherran et al.

    Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, andCrito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the significance of Plato's characters, Socrates's revolu…

  • The Scope of Deliberation

    Terence Irwin

  • Classical philosophy

    Terence Irwin

  • Plato's ethics

    Terence Irwin

    This book expounds and examines Plato's answer to the normative question, 'how ought we to live?' It discusses Plato's conception of the virtues; his views about the connection between these and happiness; and the account of reason, desire, and motivation that underlies his arguments about the virtues. Irwin traces the development of Plato's moral philosophy, from the Socratic dialogues to its fullest exposition in the Republic. He discusses Plat…