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Book Synopsis Plutarch's Practical Ethics by : Lieve Van Hoof
Download or read book Plutarch's Practical Ethics written by Lieve Van Hoof and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Sophistic (c.AD 60-250) was a time of intense competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman Empire. This book, which transcends the boundaries between literature, social history, and philosophy, studies Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof combines a systematic analysis of the general principles underlying Plutarch's practical ethics, including the author's target readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, with five innovative case studies. A picture emerges of philosophy under the Roman Empire not as a set of abstract, theoretical doctrines, but as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for author and reader alike.
Book Synopsis Virtues for the People by : Geert Roskam
Download or read book Virtues for the People written by Geert Roskam and published by Universitaire Pers Leuven. This book was released on 2011 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions.
Book Synopsis Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics by : Bram Demulder
Download or read book Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics written by Bram Demulder and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch’s ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his ethical thought Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ethics on his particular interpretation of Plato’s cosmology: our quest for the good life should start by considering the good cosmos in which we live. The practical consequences of this cosmological foundation permeate various domains of Greco-Roman life: the musician, the organiser of a drinking party, and the politician should all be guided by cosmology. After exploring these domains, this book offers in-depth interpretations of two works which can only be fully understood by paying attention to cosmological aspects: Dialogue on Love and On Tranquillity of Mind.
Download or read book Plutarch's Morals written by Plutarch and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moralia is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th-13th centuries. Their author is traditionally believed to be the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The collection contains 78 essays and speeches concerning Roman and Greek life, morals, and social laws.
Download or read book Plutarch's Morals written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prolegomena to a Study of the Ethical Ideal of Plutarch and of the Greeks of the First Century A.D.-- by : George Depue Hadzsits
Download or read book Prolegomena to a Study of the Ethical Ideal of Plutarch and of the Greeks of the First Century A.D.-- written by George Depue Hadzsits and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moralia, vol. 2 written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides. Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI is a comprehensive Index.
Download or read book Moral Philosophy written by Joseph Haven and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1859 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen by : Clive Skidmore
Download or read book Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen written by Clive Skidmore and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of the work of Valerius Maximus during the Middle Ages and Renaissance was due to its value as a source of moral exhortation and guidance: the work was as relevant to the readers of those times as it had been to Valerius' contemporaries in the first century AD. Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen demonstrates that the purpose of Valerius' work was to promote a system of morality based upon historical precedent that was both traditional and authoritative to the educated classes for whom he wrote. Practical Ethics for Roman Gentlemen offers a re-definition of the purpose of Valerius' work and totally new conclusions about its predecessors, form and audience. The book is not confined to an examination of Valerius' work in isolation, but also examines earlier forms of exemplary literature, questions of how Roman literature was communicated to its audience, and presents an entirely new theory on the identity of Valerius Maximus the author.
Book Synopsis Ethical Education in Plutarch by : Sophia Xenophontos
Download or read book Ethical Education in Plutarch written by Sophia Xenophontos and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being the author of the Parallel Lives of noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch of Chaeronea (AD c.46-c.120) is widely known for his rich ethical theory, which has ensured him a reputation as one of the most profound moralists in antiquity and beyond. Previous studies have considered Plutarch's moralism in the light of specific works or group of works, so that an exploration of his overall concept of ethical education remains a desideratum. Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising agents that Plutarch considers important for ethical development at the heart of its interpretation. These agents operate in different educational settings, and perform distinct moralising roles, dictated by the special features of the type of moral education they are expected to enact. Ethical education in Plutarch becomes a distinctive manifestation of paideia vis-à-vis the intellectual trends of the Imperial period, especially in contexts of cultural identity and power. By reappraising Plutarch's ethical authority and the significance of his didactic spirit, this book will appeal not only to scholars and students of Plutarch, but to anyone interested in the history of moral education and the development of Greek ethics.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Plutarch by : Mark Beck
Download or read book A Companion to Plutarch written by Mark Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Plutarch offers a broad survey of the famous historian and biographer; a coherent, comprehensive, and elegant presentation of Plutarch’s thought and influence Constitutes the first survey of its kind, a unified and accessible guide that offers a comprehensive discussion of all major aspects of Plutarch’s oeuvre Provides essential background information on Plutarch’s world, including his own circle of influential friends (Greek and Roman), his travels, his political activity, and his relations with Trajan and other emperors Offers contextualizing background, the literary and cultural details that shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of Plutarch’s thought Surveys the ideologically crucial reception of the Greek Classical Period in Plutarch’s writings Follows the currents of recent serious scholarship, discussing perennial interests, and delving into topics and works not formerly given serious attention
Book Synopsis Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen by : Sophia Xenophontos
Download or read book Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen written by Sophia Xenophontos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now. Sophia Xenophontos explores a wide range of literature on moralia in the Roman imperial period, as well as topics including the pathology of emotions, the social role of medicine, and character formation and social ethics, to show the sophisticated and complex ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were adapted and reinvigorated by Galen. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Book Synopsis Moral Philosophy: Including Theoretical and Practcal Ethics by : Joseph Haven
Download or read book Moral Philosophy: Including Theoretical and Practcal Ethics written by Joseph Haven and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moralia written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides. Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI is a comprehensive Index.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by : Daniel S. Richter
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic written by Daniel S. Richter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative newcomer to the Anglophone field of classics, and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. This Handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define the state of this developing field. Included are chapters that offer practical guidance on the wide range of valuable textual materials that survive, many of which are useful or even core to inquiries of particularly current interest (e.g., gender studies, cultural history of the body, sociology of literary culture, history of education and intellectualism, history of religion, political theory, history of medicine, cultural linguistics, intersection of the classical traditions and early Christianity).
Book Synopsis Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies by : Susan G. Jacobs
Download or read book Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies written by Susan G. Jacobs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies, Susan Jacobs argues that the Parallel Lives portray historical leaders solving problems familiar to statesmen and generals. By linking victories and defeats to moral character, strategic insights and practical skills, Plutarch provided lessons in effective leadership.
Book Synopsis Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind by : Max J. Lee
Download or read book Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind written by Max J. Lee and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Max J. Lee examines the philosophies of Platonism and Stoicism during the Greco-Roman era and their rivals including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity on how to transform a person's character from vice to virtue. He describes each philosophical school's respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity." --provided by publisher
