Plutarchs Practical Ethics

Author : Lieve Van Hoof
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576905
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Geert Roskam
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
ISBN 13 : 905867858X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Bram Demulder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462703299
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : George Depue Hadzsits
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Clive Skidmore
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Joseph Haven
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Sophia Xenophontos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110350467
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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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.