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Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy

Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy written by Christopher Gill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer, Greek tragedy, and philosophy. The focus in on norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. The key thesis is that, to understand Greek thinking of this type, we need to counteract the subjective andindividualistic aspects of our own thinking about the self. The book defines an 'objective-participant' conception of personality, symbolized by the idea of the person as an interlocutor in a series of types of psychological and ethical dialogue. The book is both an original contribution to thehistory of ideas of personality and the self and also offers sustained analysis and new interpretations of a number of important topics in Greek philosophy and literature. These topics include: Homeric decision-making; the problematic hero in Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy; monologues ofself-division in Greek poetry; the tripartite division of the soul and ethical education in Plato's Republic; Aristotle's ideas about 'being yourself' and meeting the claims of others; Greek philosophical thinking about what it means to be fully 'human' or 'divine'. The book is shaped as a responseto recent work in the philosophy of mind, ethics, personhood, as well as in classical scholarship. Clear and non-technical, with all Greek translated, the book brings out the continuing importance of ancient Greek thinking for contemporary study of ideas of personality and selfhood.

Tragic Views of the Human Condition

Author : Lourens Minnema
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441100695
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Views of the Human Condition written by Lourens Minnema and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?

Greek Thought

Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199220748
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought written by Christopher Gill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-14 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four related themes in Greek thought are examined in this book: (1) personality and self, (2) ethics and values (3) individuals and communities, and (4) the idea of nature as a moral norm. Although the focus is on Greek philosophy (the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic period), links between philosophy and literature or the wider culture are also explored. The book combines a survey of recent scholarship on these topics with the author's own interpretations. It can be used by students or teachers of classical studies or philosophy as an introduction to key themes and issues in Greek ethics or psychology. One aspect of the subject given special emphasis is the relationship between ancient and modern ideas on the issues treated here. The book closes with a selective bibliography on modern work on Greek philosophy.

Visions and Faces of the Tragic

Author : Paul M. Blowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192595938
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Visions and Faces of the Tragic by : Paul M. Blowers

Download or read book Visions and Faces of the Tragic written by Paul M. Blowers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the classical Greek and Roman tragedians. It analyses a whole array of hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of "tragical mimesis" in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation, aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence. Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting (and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the theological intelligence and accountability of "tragical vision" and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of tragical emotions.

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Author : John E. Curran
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1644530538
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama written by John E. Curran and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature

Author : Koen De,Temmerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004356312
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature by : Koen De,Temmerman

Download or read book Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature written by Koen De,Temmerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors from Homer to Heliodorus.

Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009339591
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory by : Jonas Grethlein

Download or read book Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory written by Jonas Grethlein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues compellingly for a new approach to ancient narrative which goes beyond narratology and is alert to its specific logic.

Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts

Author : Douglas S. Pfeiffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198714165
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts by : Douglas S. Pfeiffer

Download or read book Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts written by Douglas S. Pfeiffer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.

The Philosopher's Song

Author : Kevin Crotty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780739144060
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Song written by Kevin Crotty and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were cultural authorities, whose teachings emphasized such tragic themes as the instability of things and the indeterminacy of moral terms. The interest of Plato's philosophy lies to a great extent in the compelling interest of what he sought to repress-the poetic and political heritage of a world tragically conceived. Plato's attacks on the poets are notorious. Despite his apparently frank hostility, however, his relation to the poets was exceedingly complex, argues Crotty. Even the banishment of the poets in the Republic turns out to be, more deeply, a recruitment of mimetic poetry for Plato's metaphysics. Once endowed with a metaphysical significance, however, the poets posed a serious challenge to Platonic idealism, and spurred Plato to revise considerably his metaphysical scheme. Crotty ultimately concludes that the views of politics and ethics in Plato's later works return in many ways to the insights of the poets.

Trials of Reason

Author : David Wolfsdorf
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195327322
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Trials of Reason written by David Wolfsdorf and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on Plato's dialogues persistently divides its focus between the dramatic or literary and the philosophical or argumentative dimensions of the texts. But this hermeneutic division of labor is naïve, for Plato's arguments are embedded in dramatic dialogues and developed through complex, largely informal exchanges between literary characters. Consequently, it is questionable how readers can even attribute arguments and theses to the author himself. The answer to this question lies in transcending the scholarly divide and integrating the literary and philosophical dimensions of the texts. This is the task of Trials of Reason. The study focuses on a set of fourteen so-called early dialogues, beginning with a methodological framework that explains how to integrate the argumentation and the drama in these texts. Unlike most canonical philosophical works, the early dialogues do not merely express the results of the practice of philosophy. Rather, they dramatize philosophy as a kind of motivation, the desire for knowledge of goodness. They dramatize philosophy as a discursive practice, motivated by this desire and ideally governed by reason. And they dramatize the trials to which desire and reason are subject, that is, the difficulties of realizing philosophy as a form of motivation, a practice, and an epistemic achievement. In short, Trials of Reason argues that Plato's early dialogues are as much works of meta-philosophy as philosophy itself.

Paul and the salvation of the individual [electronic resource]

Author : Gary W. Burnett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004122970
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Paul and the salvation of the individual [electronic resource] by : Gary W. Burnett

Download or read book Paul and the salvation of the individual [electronic resource] written by Gary W. Burnett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work suggests that it is possible to maintain that Paul had a lively interest in the salvation of the individual, without having to revert to traditional Lutheran interpretations of the text. It focuses on three important texts in Romans.

Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy

Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004113961
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy by : John J. Cleary

Download or read book Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy written by John J. Cleary and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents some of the activities of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from the academic year 1997-98. It contains nine colloquia that were hosted by eight different colleges and universities in the greater Boston area. Discussions of the works of Plato dominate this volume, with six of the nine colloquia based on Platonic texts. Appropriately, the colloquia begin with an analysis of division in the ancient atomists. Later, a study of truth in Aristotle gives a counterpoint to the Platonic interplay of drama and pedagogy or logic and rhetoric examined in papers about the "Theaetetus" and "Symposium." A presentation of Proclus's account of evil revisits some of the issues of sophistry and morality discussed in relation to Plato's "Republic" and "Euthydemus." Finally, the remaining Platonic papers are in a way not about Plato at all, but about Socrates and Xanthippe, supplementing Platonic dialogues with Xenophon and others. Underneath these discussions of ancient texts current modes of philosophy run along, providing a score of alternative interpretative schemes. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought

Author : Ian M. Crystal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351901249
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought by : Ian M. Crystal

Download or read book Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought written by Ian M. Crystal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection - an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical thought. The manner in which the ancients dealt with the intellect apprehending itself, took them into both the metaphysical and epistemological domains with reflections on questions of thinking, identity and causality. Ian Crystal traces the origins from which the concept of self-intellection springs, by examining Plato's account of the epistemic subject and the emergence of self-intellection through the Aristotelian account, before the final part of the book explores the problem of how the intellect apprehends itself, and its resolution including Plotinus' reformulation and the dilemma raised by Sextus Empiricus. Crystal concludes that Plotinus recasts the metaphysical structures of Plato and Aristotle in such a way that he casts the concept of self-intellection in an entirely new light and offers a solution to the problem.

Sophocles, Use of Psychological Terminology

Author : Shirley D. Sullivan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773574123
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Sophocles, Use of Psychological Terminology by : Shirley D. Sullivan

Download or read book Sophocles, Use of Psychological Terminology written by Shirley D. Sullivan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once reference text and literary foray, this work is designed to engage both specialists and non-specialists. It offers detailed discussion of the Greek text for those who have a knowledge of the language while also making all readings available in translation and transliterated forms. Sophocles' Use of Psychological Terminology will be an enduring resource for anyone interested in Athenian tragedy and especially for those interested in how the early Greeks viewed what we now think of as psychological activity.

Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer

Author : Allison L. Gray
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316157558X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer written by Allison L. Gray and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couverture indique : "The theologian Gregory of Nyssa wrote biographies of his sister, a local bishop, and Moses. Allison L. Gray shows that he adapts techniques from Greco-Roman biographical writing in these texts to create narratives that are suited to a specifically Christian form of education, focused on virtue and scriptural interpretation."

Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters

Author : Maren Niehoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004221344
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters by : Maren Niehoff

Download or read book Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters written by Maren Niehoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present collection of articles brings together scholars from different fields and offers pioneering essays on the Alexandrian scholia, Philo, Platonic thinkers and the rabbis, which cross traditional boundaries and interpret Biblical and Homeric readers in light of each other.

Ancient Philosophy of the Self

Author : Pauliina Remes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402085966
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Philosophy of the Self written by Pauliina Remes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, “What is self?” Some of them have even argued that there is no such thing at all. This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptualised in antiquity. How did the ancients understand what it is that I am, fundamentally, as an acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others like and unlike me? The authors hi- light the attempts in ancient philosophical sources to grasp the evasive character of the specifically human presence in the world. They also describe how the ancient philosophers understood human agents as capable of causing changes and being affected in and by the world. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which the ancients conceived of human beings as subjects of reasoning and action, as well as responsible individuals in the moral sphere and in their relations to other people. The themes of persistence, identity, self-examination and self-improvement recur in many of these essays. The articles of the collection combine systematic and historical approaches to ancient sources that range from Socrates to Plotinus and Augustine.