L'etica della temperanza

Starting from the "Homeric society" and its ethic values - behavioural excess, the author follows the slow shaping of the ideal of temperance within the classic polis, concentrating on Plato's and Aristotle's ethical and politcal proposals (Chapter 1). The second chapter is consacrated to the hellenistic doctrines, namely the epicurean and the stoic ones. The third, on the influence of hellenistic ethics into the classical latin literature, espetially Livy, Virgil, Tacit, and Juvanal. The fourth chapter deals with the contribution of Alexandrian medicine to the notion of temperance, with particular emphasis on Galen's medical and ethic thought. The last chapter is consacrated to the influence of the hellenistic notion of temperance in two Christian phinkers as Paul and Tertullian. The entire book is characterised by a pertinent attention to the fortune of the ideal of temprance in modern philosophical thought, namely Joost Lips, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Rousseu, Kant, Hegel. An index of names and an index locorum complete this work.