Virtues for the People
Plutarch of Chaeronea 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...
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| description | Plutarch of Chaeronea 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 for the People’s collected essays deal with these questions from different perspectives and throw a new light upon this multifaceted domain of Plutarch's thinking and writing. Special points of interest are the concept of ‘popular philosophy' itself and its implications, its dependence on a more theoretical philosophical background, and the importance of moral progress, the therapy of wickedness, and the common experiences of everyday life. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-291132025-07-30T13:49:02Z Virtues for the People Roskam, Geert Classics Classical Greek philosophy intellectual history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Plutarch of Chaeronea 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 for the People’s collected essays deal with these questions from different perspectives and throw a new light upon this multifaceted domain of Plutarch's thinking and writing. Special points of interest are the concept of ‘popular philosophy' itself and its implications, its dependence on a more theoretical philosophical background, and the importance of moral progress, the therapy of wickedness, and the common experiences of everyday life. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-02-01 23:55 2020-01-23 03:00:27 2020-04-01T10:55:47Z 2011-05-06 book 1004124 OCN: 1100491281 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25959 9789058678584 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29113 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25959/1/1004124.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/VP_PLU 10.11116/VP_PLU 9e472607-bec3-4b15-ba3f-f05039722389 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789058678584 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books 102275 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books open access |
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