Book review: The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics

Abstract

'Greek Ethics', an undergraduate class taught by the British moral philosopher N.J.H. Dent, introduced this reviewer to the ethical philosophy of ancient Greece. The class had a modest purview - a sequence of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle - but it proved no less effective, in retrospect, than more synoptic level) appropriate focus. This excellent Companion will now serve any such class extremely well, allowing students a broader exposure that that traditional sequence, without sacrificing the class's circumscribed focus.