Virtues for the People : Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics

Weitere Verfasser: Roskam, Geert , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2011.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (384 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Plutarchea hypomnemata.
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Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 90-5867-858-X
Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Virtues for the People; Copyright; Contents; Efficiency and Effectiveness of Plutarch's Broadcasting Ethics; 1. Virtues for the people; Semper duo, numquam tres? Plutarch's Popularphilosophie on Friendship and Virtue in On having many friends; 1. Plutarch's On having many friends and Popularphilosophie; 1.1. Popularphilosophie; 1.2. On having many friends; 2. On having many friends 1-2: rhetoric and philosophy; 2.1. A sample of Plutarch's rhetoric; The exordium ( 1-2a): questioning a common craving; The thesis (2b): semper duo, numquam tres!; 2.2. A glimpse of philosophy?
  • 3. True friendship: Plutarch and Themistius4. Likeness and friendship: in search of the Doppelgänger; 5. Concluding observations. Plutarch and Maximus; What is Popular About Plutarch's 'Popular Philosophy'?; Popular wisdom?; Virtues for the people?; Conclusion: 'popular philosophy' - or 'educated ethics'?; Plutarch's Lives and the Critical Reader; 1. The road not taken; 2. Telling and showing; 3. Multivalence; 4. Compare and contrast; 5. The critical reader in the Moralia; Greek Poleis and the Roman Empire: Nature and Features of Political Virtues in an Autocratic System
  • Del Satiro che voleva baciare il fuoco (o Come trarre vantaggio dai nemici)Plutarch's 'Diet-Ethics' Precepts of Healthcare Between Diet and Ethics; 1. The opening dialogue: setting the context; 2. Establishing 'diet-ethics'; 3. An active middle course between paralysing extremes; 4. Pivoting on the reader's motivations; 5. Conclusion: Plutarch's Precepts of Healthcare and beyond; 2. Some theoretical questions on ethical praxis; Plutarchan Morality: Arete, Tyche, and Non-Consequentialism; Virtue, Fortune, and Happiness in Theory and Practice
  • Plutarch Against Epicurus on Affection for Offspring A Reading of De amore prolis1. Introduction: Plutarch's De amore prolis, a problematic text; 2. The previous tradition; 2.1. The concept of φιλοστοργιά; 2.2. The debate over love for one's children; 3. Plutarch's argument in De amore prolis; 3.1. Chapter 1; 3.2. Chapter 2; 3.3. Chapter 3; 3.4. Chapter 4; 3.5. Chapter 5; 4. Conclusion; 3. Virtues and Vices; Plutarch's 'Minor' Ethics: Some Remarks on De garrulitate, De curiositate, and De vitioso pudore; Appendix
  • Plutarchs Schrift gegen das Borgen (Περι ̀του ͂μη ̀δειν͂ δανειζ́εσθαι): Adressaten, Lehrziele und Genos1. Die Adressaten; a) Einleitung: Zum Stil des Traktats; b) An wen richtet sich die Schrift?; 2. Das Lehrziel; 3. De cupiditate divitiarum und die Gattung von De vitando aere alieno; Competition and its Costs: Φιλονικιά in Plutarch's Society and Heroes; Φιλονικιά or φιλονεικιά?; Φιλονικιά in classical writers; Φιλονικιά as a passion; Φιλονικιά in Plutarch's Moralia; The Plutarchan hero and φιλονικιά; Conclusion; 4. 'Popular philosophy' in context
  • Astrometeorología y creencias sobre los astros en Plutarco