Agatology: modernity and classic

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 Classic" The first attempt to construct the doctrine of benefits as philosophical subdiscipline, located in the territories of ethics and philosophical anthropology, and at the same time its historical reconstruction as the foundations of "practical philosophy in modern analytical tradition, in ancient India, is undertaken. 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 patronics 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 - to everyone who understands that a person is determined by his goal -setting, that it can be "sighted" only if there is a hierarchy of goods in his mind and in his mind. That the two thousandth work of the classics of philosophy cannot be unnecessary for someone who wants to decide with this hierarchy