Agatology. Modern and classic: Vladimir Shokhin

The term “agatology” (the doctrine of goods) appeared no later than the term “axiology” (the doctrine of values), but he was much less lucky, since only in the XXI century. Some Western historians of ancient philosophy began to take it seriously. In the monograph by V.K. Shokhina “Agatology: Modernity and Classics” The first attempt to construct the doctrine of benefits as a philosophical subdiscipline located in the territories of ethics and philosophical anthropology in philosophy, and at the same time its historical reconstruction as the foundations of “practical philosophy” in modern analytical tradition, in ancient India. China, in all Greco-Roman schools (each of which was forced to decide on the stratifications and “tables of goods” Aristotle and participated in a all-Ell agatological polemic), as well as in the era of patrician and scholasticism. The book appeals not only to experts in the field of ethics, the history of philosophy and philosophical comparativeness, but also to a wide reader …

Author
Shokhin Vladimir Kirillovich
Editor
Bozhko Yuri Valentinovich
Publisher
Canon+, 2014