The virtue of agency

• Verfasst von: Moore, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The virtue of agency
• Titelzusatz: Sôphrosunê and self-constitution in classical Greece
• Verf.angabe: Christopher Moore
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 online resource.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2023. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27, 2023)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-766353-0
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197663509.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Society
• Sach-SW: Ethics & moral philosophy
• K10plus-PPN: 1854297465
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Sôphrosunê, the canonical Greek virtue perhaps best reflected in the English term 'self-discipline,' is little remembered today, but during the generations around Socrates it was the object of significant debate - about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. Christopher Moore shows that classical Greek thinkers judged it more fundamental than mere desire-management or temperance: they saw it as the virtue of agency, the capacity to be a person truly responsible for his or her actions. This was the capacity to be guided by what's best, and to count, finally, as a coherent and unified 'self.'