Ancient Ideals

Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226155498
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and that both demand more substantive attention, Daniel Dombrowski harnesses the insights of ancient Greek thinkers to illuminate contemporary athletics. Dombrowski contends that the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus shed important light on issues—such as the pursuit of excellence, the concept of play, and the power of accepting physical limitations while also improving one’s body—that remain just as relevant in our sports-obsessed age as they were in ancient Greece. Bringing these concepts to bear on contemporary concerns, Dombrowski considers such questions as whether athletic competition can be a moral substitute for war, whether it necessarily constitutes war by other means, and whether it encourages fascist tendencies or ethical virtue. The first volume to philosophically explore twenty-first-century sport in the context of its ancient predecessor, Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals reveals that their relationship has great and previously untapped potential to inform our understanding of human nature.

Author : Henry Osborn Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Ideals written by Henry Osborn Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Van Nortwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031305519X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Men written by Thomas Van Nortwick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring models for masculinity as they appear in major works of Greek literature, this book combines literary, historical, and psychological insights to examine how the ancient Greeks understood the meaning of a man's life. The thoughts and actions of Achilles, Odysseus, Oedipus, and other enduring characters from Greek literature reflect the imperatives that the ancient Greeks saw as governing a man's life as he moved from childhood to adult maturity to old age. Because the Greeks believed that men (as opposed to women) were by nature the proper agents of human civilization within the larger order of the universe, examining how the Greeks thought that a man ought to live his life prompts exploration of the place of human life in a world governed by transcendent forces, nature, fate, and the gods. While focusing on the experience of men in ancient Greece, the discussion also offers an analysis of the society in which they lived, addressing questions still vital in our own time, such as how the members of a society should govern themselves, distribute resources, form relationships with others, weigh the needs of the individual against the larger good of the community, and establish right relations with divine forces beyond their knowledge or control. Suggestions for further reading offer the reader the chance to explore the ideas in the book.

Author : Valentina Arena
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000245772
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty written by Valentina Arena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty: Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives is the first study of the ancient notions of liberty in the interconnected societies of the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium and how they relate to modern political theory. This volume gathers the work of historians of antiquity, whose specialisms are geographically and temporally diverse, together with political theorists and legal and political philosophers interested in conceptions of liberty. Together they discuss the rival understandings of liberty in antiquity and the potential offerings of these ancient societies to our contemporary intellectual world. This book aims to broaden our understanding of the conceptual articulations of liberty in the ancient world, from beyond the Graeco-Roman world to other ancient societies to which this world was connected; and to shed light on rival understandings of liberty in antiquity and the role these might play in the current thinking about this concept. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, History of European Ideas.

Author : Henry Osborn Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Ideals written by Henry Osborn Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Davidson
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898750326
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals written by Thomas Davidson and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In undertaking to treat of Aristotle as the expounder of ancient educational ideas, I might, with Kapp's Aristoteles' Staatspaedagogik before me, have made my task an easy one. I might simply have presented in an orderly way and with a little commentary, what is to be found on the subject of education in his various works -- Politics, Ethics, Rhetoric, Poetics, etc. I had two reasons, however, for not adopting this course: (1) that this work had been done, better than I could do it, in the treatise referred to, and (2) that a mere restatement of what Aristotle says on education would hardly have shown his relation to ancient pedagogy as a whole. I therefore judged it better, by tracing briefly the whole history of Greek education up to Aristotle and down from Aristotle, to show the past which conditioned his theories and the future which was conditioned by them. Only thus, it seemed to me, could his teachings be seen in their proper light. And I have found that this method has many advantages, of which I may mention one. It has enabled me to show the close connection that existed at all times between Greek education and Greek social and political life, and to present the one as the reflection of the other. And this is no small advantage, since it is just from its relation to the whole of life that Greek education derives its chief interest for us.

Author : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198705603
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ideals of Inquiry written by Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Source other than Library of Congress.

Author : Thomas Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals written by Thomas Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Joel Cadbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Ideals in the Old Testament written by Henry Joel Cadbury and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Onassis Hellenic Culture
ISBN 13 : 019992726X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty written by David Konstan and published by Onassis Hellenic Culture. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who study the nature of beauty are at once plagued by a singular issue: what does it mean to say something is beautiful? On the one hand, beauty is associated with erotic attraction; on the other, it is the primary category in aesthetics, and it is widely supposed that the proper response to a work of art is one of disinterested contemplation. At its core, then, beauty is a contested concept, and both sides feel comfortable appealing to the authority of Plato, and via him, to the ancient Greeks generally. So, who is right--if either? Beauty offers an elegant investigation of ancient Greek notions of beauty and, in the process, sheds light on modern aesthetics and how we ought to appreciate the artistic achievements of the classical world itself. The book begins by reexamining the commonly held notion that the ancient Greeks possessed no term that can be unambiguously defined as "beauty" or "beautiful." Author David Konstan discusses a number of Greek approximations before positioning the heretofore unexamined term kállos as the key to bridging the gap between beauty and desire, and tracing its evolution as applied to physical beauty, art, literature, and more. Throughout, the discussion is enlivened with thought-provoking stories taken from Homer, Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, and others. The book then examines corresponding terms in ancient Latin literature to highlight the survival of Greek ideas in the Latin West. The final chapter will compare the ancient Greek conception of beauty with modern notions of beauty and aesthetics. In particular, the book will focus on the reception of classical Greek art in the Renaissance and how Vasari and his contemporaries borrowed from Plato the sense that the beauty in art was transcendental, but left out the erotic dimension of viewing. A study of the ancient Greek idea of beauty shows that, even if Greece was the inspiration for modern aesthetic ideals, the Greek view of the relationship between beauty and desire was surprisingly consistent--and different from our own. Through this magisterial narrative, it is possible to identify how the Greeks thought of beauty, and what it was that attracted them. Their perceptions still have something important to tell us about art, love, desire--and beauty.