Virtues for the People : Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics /

Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people''s true needs. Alth...

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מחברים אחרים: Stockt, L. Van der, Roskam, Geert
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2011.
סדרה:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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סיכום:Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people''s true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch''s authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions), they have attracted only limited scholarly attention. Virtues fo.
תאור פריט:Papers presented at an international conference held in Delphi, Greece.
תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9789461661180
גישה:Open Access