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Democritus of Abdera, best known as a cosmologist and the founder of atomism, wrote more on ethics than anyone before Plato. His work Peri euthumiēs (On Contentment) was extremely influential on the later development of teleological and intellectualist ethics, eudaimonism, hedonism, therapeutic ethics, and positive psychology. The loss of his works, however, and the transmission of his fragments in collections of maxims (gnōmai), has obscured the extent of his contribution to the history of systematic ethics and influence on later philosophy, especially in the Hellenistic age. “The Ethical Maxims of Democritus of Abdera” reviews the evidence basis for Democritus’ ethics, discusses the rhetorical and logical aspects of his maxims, attempts to synthesize the fragments into an overall interpretation, and offers a summary of some of the more influential aspects of his ethics.
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