Greek Popular Morality In The Time Of Plato And Aristotle

Author : K. J. Dover,Kenneth James Dover
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Archibald Edward Dobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Robert Heinaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351910750

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Plato and Aristotle's Ethics by Robert Heinaman Pdf

This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle's ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).

Author : John Barton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191635991

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Ethics in Ancient Israel by John Barton Pdf

Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and various anonymous and pseudonymous texts from shortly before the New Testament period. Professor John Barton argues that there were several models for thinking about ethics, including a 'divine command' theory, something approximating to natural law, a virtue ethic, and a belief in human custom and convention. Moreover, he examines ideas of reward and punishment, purity and impurity, the status of moral agents and patients, imitation of God, and the image of God in humanity. Barton maintains that ethical thinking can be found not only in laws but also in the wisdom literature, in the Psalms, and in narrative texts. There is much interaction with recent scholarship in both English and German. The book features discussion of comparative material from other ancient Near Eastern cultures and a chapter on short summaries of moral teaching, such as the Ten Commandments. This innovative work should be of interest to those concerned with the interpretation of the Old Testament but also to students of ethics.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Ethics
ISBN : OXFORD:N12027719

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The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle Pdf

Author : Eran Almagor,Lisa Maurice
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004347724

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The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture by Eran Almagor,Lisa Maurice Pdf

In Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture, Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice offer a collection of chapters dealing with the reception of antiquity in modern popular media, and focusing on a comparison between ancient and modern sets of values.

Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 James Chambliss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 081531177X

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Philosophy of Education by Joseph James Chambliss Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Brian P. Hendley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438406459

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Plato, Time, and Education by Brian P. Hendley Pdf

This collection of original essays pays tribute to the man by exploring topics that have interested him through a long and productive career. Plato's mathematical imagery, his theory of perception, the role of engineering techne in the origin of Greek science, time and free will in Kant, Whitehead as teacher of teachers, mapping friendships, Kierkegaard and the necessity of forgery. These and other topics are given fresh treatments meant to stimulate further philosophical thinking in the spirit of Brumbaugh himself.

Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 9781888456028

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A History of Medicine: Greek medicine by Plinio Prioreschi Pdf

Author : A. W. Price
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780191586613

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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle by A. W. Price Pdf

This book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments - otherwise very different - of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism. - ;Friendship and desire in the Lysis; Love in the Symposium; Love in the Phaedrus; Perfect friendship in Aristotle; Aristotle on the varieties of friendship; The household; The City; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited. -

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521436109

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The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut Pdf

Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.

Author : Archibald E. Dobbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1330296087

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Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece by Archibald E. Dobbs Pdf

Excerpt from Philosophy and Popular Morals in Ancient Greece: An Examination of Popular Morality and Philosophical Ethics, in Their Interrelations and Reciprocal Influence in Ancient Greece, Down to the Close of the Third Century B. C This Essay was awarded the Hare Prize in February 1906. Since then it has been practically rewritten. The subject is twofold. In the first place, we have to consider the circumstances which gave rise to moral philosophy in Ancient Greece, and the process of its development through the criticism and absorption of popular ideas; and secondly, its subsequent reflex influence on popular life and thought down to the close of the third century B.C. It is to the latter problem - discussed in Part II of this Essay - that I would call special attention. The influence of popular thought on philosophy has been discussed in detail by modern writers of learning and repute; and in this province I have done little more than collect and systematize their conclusions. The influence of philosophy on the mind and conduct of the people has, so far as I am aware, been wholly disregarded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : J. Michael Hoffpauir
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498585309

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Between Socrates and the Many by J. Michael Hoffpauir Pdf

Between Socrates and the Many: A Study of Plato’s Crito is foremost concerned with Plato’s character, Crito. By focusing on its namesake, Hoffpauir draws attention to aspects of the Crito that may otherwise go unnoticed or underrated: justice, as most know it, seems unjust, and justice, as Socrates knows it, seems impossible; love of one’s own, as most know it, limits one’s own good and the city’s good; and concern for the body and hatred of suffering undermine virtue. Through a consideration of the problems evinced by Crito—problems not peculiar to him or to his Athens—readers may gain a newfound appreciation of why Socrates’ arguments about living well fail. More importantly, by considering why Socrates must advance these arguments in the first place, readers may come to appreciate the strength of man’s natural resistance to that which is necessary for civilized life. Although Crito initially comes to sight as in-between Socrates and the many, as one who shares in the opinions of both, in the end, Crito reveals that all that is in-between Socrates and the many is an unbridgeable chasm.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199644384

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy by Brad Inwood Pdf

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.