Book contents
- The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Ethics across the Late-antique and Byzantine Period
- Part II Prominent Ethical Views of the Time
- Chapter 9 The Ethos of a Theologian
- Chapter 10 Porphyry on Justice towards Animals
- Chapter 11 Eustratius of Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in Twelfth-century Constantinople: Literary Criticism, Patronage and the Construction of the Byzantine Commentary Tradition
- Chapter 12 Michael of Ephesus on the Relation of Civic Happiness to Happiness in Contemplation
- Chapter 13 George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Names and Subjects
Chapter 12 - Michael of Ephesus on the Relation of Civic Happiness to Happiness in Contemplation
from Part II - Prominent Ethical Views of the Time
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2021
Book contents
- The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Ethics across the Late-antique and Byzantine Period
- Part II Prominent Ethical Views of the Time
- Chapter 9 The Ethos of a Theologian
- Chapter 10 Porphyry on Justice towards Animals
- Chapter 11 Eustratius of Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in Twelfth-century Constantinople: Literary Criticism, Patronage and the Construction of the Byzantine Commentary Tradition
- Chapter 12 Michael of Ephesus on the Relation of Civic Happiness to Happiness in Contemplation
- Chapter 13 George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index of Names and Subjects
Summary
The aim of the paper is twofold. First, it aims to show that the relation of the two kinds of happiness requires that civic happiness, and thus civic virtues, exist in the course of contemplative happiness. It does not mean, however, that they are related to one another as a part to the whole. Second, it may also be clear that unlike the commentaries on Parva Naturalia, the commentary on Nicomachean Ethics X witnesses Michael of Ephesus’ Platonic and Neoplatonic commitments.
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- The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium , pp. 212 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021