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WNV · Who Needs Virtue? The Early Academy and the Way to Happiness

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-11-01 → 2025-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 172 750 €
Участници: 2
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Етичните теории на първите поколения в Академията на Платон изследват връзката между добродетелта и щастието. Това помага да се разбере развитието на античната философия като колективен процес, а не само като дело на отделни основатели.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Who Needs Virtue? The Early Academy and the Way to Happiness

Who Needs Virtue? (WNV) investigates the early history of virtue ethics by recovering the ethical theories developed in Plato’s first school, the Early Academy (4th century BCE). While modern accounts focus on Plato and Aristotle, the Academy’s first generations—Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, and others—have remained largely invisible. WNV restores their role as active participants in the debate on how virtue (aretē) relates to happiness (eudaimonia), showing that their discussions formed the connective tissue in the development of ancient ethical thought. The project responds to a clear gap in scholarship: the Early Academy is still treated as either derivative of Plato or merely transitional toward later Platonism. By reassessing its doctrines in their original context, WNV reframes the emergence of ethical theory as a collective and dialectical process, rather than the work of isolated founders. WNV aims to: • Identify the main ethical themes developed by Early Academic authors concerning virtue, happiness, and the good life. • Analyse the philosophical problems that prompted these doctrines and their dialogue with Plato and Aristotle. • Reconstruct the structure of the debate on virtue and happiness in the fourth century BCE. • Re-evaluate the significance of Early Academic ethics within their historical and philosophical context. Integrating philology, history, and argument analysis, the project examines fragmentary evidence with both linguistic precision and conceptual depth, and includes a gender perspective through the study of women’s philosophical education in the Academy.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

‘Who Needs Virtue? The Early Academy and the way to happiness’ (WNV) aims to show that the theories developed in the Early Academy - the phase of the Academy immediately following the death of Plato - are crucial for understanding the dynamics and interplay of the origin of the debate on virtue and happiness in the 4th century BCE.How do we human beings attain happiness? And to what extent, if any, does virtue contribute to happiness? These questions lie at the heart of Western ethics from as early as the 5th century BCE. In antiquity, there were two major, competing answers to the question of how happiness and virtue are related. The first model, advanced by Plato, suggests that virtue (arete) is a sufficient condition for human beings to secure happiness (eudaimonia). Differently, Aristotle holds that virtue is not sufficient for someone to live a happy life, for other (non-moral) goods (e.g., health, wealth and friends) are also required. These two models are usually examined in terms of their similarities and differences. Yet, what is missing from the picture is an account of the framework in which this debate originally emerged and the discussions that contributed to shaping these responses. WNV seeks to fill this gap by advancing the hypothesis that coeval developments in ancient virtue ethics can be more effectively understood as the result of a dialectic with and in the backdrop of the discussions of virtue and happiness conducted by the first generation of Plato’s students.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO · TorinoКоординаторИталия
EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN · TuebingenГермания