OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi Regret OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi Regret A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology JAMES WARREN 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©JamesWarren2022 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2022 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2021940025 ISBN978–0–19–884026–8 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198840268.001.0001 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi ForAlison OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi Contents Acknowledgements ix ListofAbbreviations xi Introduction: Why Regret? 1 1. Virtue, Metameleia, Regret, and Remorse 12 2. Plato on Regret, Akrasia, and the Tyrannical Soul 35 3. Aristotle on Regret and Counter-Voluntary Actions 84 4. Aristotle on Regret and Akrasia 98 5. Metameleia and Ignorance 117 6. Stoic Regret 127 7. Gellius and Gallus on the Limits of Regret 156 8. Epilogue 179 References 183 Index Locorum 189 Subject Index 193 OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOFS–FINAL,30/8/2021,SPi Acknowledgements Earlier versions of parts of this work were presented to audiences at the Institute of Classical Studies, at the 2018 meeting of the Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy, and as the 2019 Collis Lecture at Transylvania University, Kentucky. I would like to thank in particular George Boys-Stones, Jenny Bryan, Matthew Duncombe, Emily Fletcher, Simon Gathercole, David Kaufman, Anthony Price, Katharine O’Reilly, John Svarlien, Shaul Tor, and Raphael Woolf for their comments, assistance, and suggestions.Ihavealsobenefitedgreatlyfromdiscussionsofthismaterialwith Frisbee Sheffield and Gábor Betegh. The Cambridge B Caucus remains a source of inspiration and encouragement and a reminder of what fun it can betothinkaboutancientphilosophicaltextswithfriends.Tworeadersforthe Pressspottedsomeerrorsformetocorrectandmadehelpfulsuggestionsfor improving the final version. I also owe thanks to Peter Momtchiloff at the PressandtoMonicaMatthewsforhercarefulcopy-editing. ThemajorpartoftheresearchforthisworkwascompletedwhileIwason sabbatical leave for the 2017–18 academic year. I would like to thank my colleagues in the Faculty of Classics and at Corpus Christi College who took overmydutiesforthattime. Idedicatethisbooktomysister,withloveandthanks.