Ethics In Ancient Greek Literature

Author : Maria Liatsi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110699616

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Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.

Author : Maria Liatsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110699176

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Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature by Maria Liatsi Pdf

Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.

Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315522043

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Virtue and Knowledge by William J. Prior Pdf

Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.

Author : Joseph M. Bryant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430413

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Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece by Joseph M. Bryant Pdf

An exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a comprehensive historical-sociological analysis of the Polis form of social organization, which charts the evolution of its basic institutions, roles, statuses, and class relations. From the Dark Age period of "genesis" on to the Hellenistic era of "eclipse" by the emergent forces of imperial patrimonialism, Polis society promoted and sustained corresponding normative codes which mobilized and channeled the requisite emotive commitments and cognitive judgments for functional proficiency under existing conditions of life. The aristocratic warrior-ethos canonized in the Homeric epics; the civic ideology of equality and justice espoused by reformist lawgivers and poets; the democratization of status honor and martial virtue that attended the shift to hoplite warfare; the philosophical exaltation of the Polis-citizen bond as found in the architectonic visions of Plato and Aristotle; and the subsequent retreat from civic virtues and the interiorization of value articulated by the Skeptics, Epicureans, and Stoics, new age philosophies in a world remade by Alexander's conquests--these are the key phases in the evolving currents of Hellenic moral discourse, as structurally framed by transformations within the institutional matrix of Polis society.

Author : Douglas L. Cairns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106010607429

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Aidōs by Douglas L. Cairns Pdf

Introduction; Aidos in Homer; From Hesiod to the Fifth Century; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; The Sophists, Plato, and Aristotle; References; Glossary; Index of Principal Passages; General Index.

Author : Douglas L. Cairns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Ethics in literature
ISBN : 128076368X

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Aid†os by Douglas L. Cairns Pdf

Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191076411

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Early Greek Ethics by David Conan Wolfsdorf Pdf

Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological, and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens, and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi, and On Law and Justice. In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife, and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period.

Author : K. J. Dover,Kenneth James Dover
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0872202453

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Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle by K. J. Dover,Kenneth James Dover Pdf

In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.

Author : John M. Dillon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 025334526X

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Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece by John M. Dillon Pdf

Explores the social and familial relations of the ancient Greeks.

Author : Arthur W. H. Adkins
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004122183

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Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: from Homer to the End of the Fifth Century by Arthur W. H. Adkins Pdf

Author : Archibald Edward Dobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B44203

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Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece by Archibald Edward Dobbs Pdf

"This essay was awarded the Hare prize in February, 1906. Since then it has been practically rewritten."--Preface.

Author : Susan Sauvé Meyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135948306

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Ancient Ethics by Susan Sauvé Meyer Pdf

This is the first comprehensive guide and only substantial undergraduate level introduction to ancient Greek and Roman ethics. It covers the ethical theories and positions of all the major philosophers (including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) and schools (Stoics and Epicureans) from the earliest times to the Hellenistic philosophers, analyzing their main arguments and assessing their legacy. This book maps the foundations of this key area, which is crucial knowledge across the disciplines and essential for a wide range of readers.

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664638304

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A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds Pdf

A Problem in Greek Ethics is a book by John Addington Symonds. It tackles some ancient Greek traditions where young boys were judged appealingly superior to women or adult men.

Author : Marina Berzins McCoy,Marina McCoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199672783

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Wounded Heroes by Marina Berzins McCoy,Marina McCoy Pdf

McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

Author : J. E. Alvey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857938121

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A Short History of Ethics and Economics by J. E. Alvey Pdf

'This is an important and timely work that addresses the moral crisis of contemporary economics. Alvey not only provides an excellent narrative of classical Greek economics, but his arguments are aimed at restoring the central role that ethics played in the long tradition of economic thought. This is an invaluable scholarly resource for academics and students of political economy as well as the history of political thought.' Benjamin Wong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics a dissatisfaction that is widespread today A Short History of Economics and Ethics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical tradition of economics and the crisis of modern economics. In doing so, James Alvey focuses on four of the leading ancient Greek thinkers: Socrates, Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle. The author uses insights from Amartya Sen's Capabilities approach as well as other sources to retrieve the ethical tradition of economics. Five aspects of this tradition which seem to lie outside of mainstream economics are identified: an ethical methodology; some notion of a just price; an understanding that ethical motivations are relevant to human action; a rich understanding of human well-being; and some notion of distributive justice related to human well-being. Creating a forum for further debate and research opportunity, this book will appeal to students, scholars and historians of economic thought, as well as to all those interested in the intersection of ethics with economics.