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Title Virtues for the people : aspects of Plutarchan ethics / edited by Geert Roskam and Luc Van der Stockt.

Publication Info. Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2022]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
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Series Plutarchea hypomnemata
Plutarchea hypomnemata.
Note Papers presented at an international conference held in Delphi, Greece.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-349) and index.
Contents Efficiency and effectiveness of Plutarch's broadcasting ethics / G. Roskam -- L. Van der Stockt -- Semper duo, numquam tres? : Plutarch's Popularphilosophie on friendship and virtue in On having many friends / L. Van der Stockt -- What is popular about Plutarch's 'Popular Philosophy'? / Chr. Pelling -- Plutarch's Lives and the critical reader / T.E. Duff -- Greek Poleis and the Roman Empire : nature and features of political virtues in an Autocratic system / P. Desideri -- Del Satiro che voleva baciare il fuoco (o Come trarre vantaggio dai nemici) / J.C. Capriglione -- Plutarch's 'Diet-Ethics' : precepts of healthcare between diet and ethics / L. Van Hoof -- Plutarchan morality : arete, tyche, and non-consequentialism / H.M. Martin -- Virtue, fortune, and happiness in theory and practice / J. Opsomer -- Plutarch against Epicurus on affection for offspring : a reading of De amore prolis / G. Roskam -- Plutarch's 'minor' ethics : some remarks on De garrulitate, De curiositate, and De vitioso pudore / A.G. Nikolaidis -- Plutarchs Schrift gegen das Borgen [Peri tou m dein daneizesthai] : Adressaten, Lehrziele und Genos / H.G. Ingenkamp -- Competition and its costs : [Philonikia] in Plutarch's society and heroes / Ph. A. Stadter -- Astrometeorología y creencias sobre los astros en Plutarco / A. Pérez Jiménez -- Bitch is not a four-letter word : animal reason and human passion in Plutarch / J. Mossman, F. Titchener -- Autour du miroir : les miroitements d'une image dans l'œuvre de Plutarque / F. Frazier.
Summary 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.
Language Twelve contributions in English, 1 in French, 1 in German, 1 in Italian, and 1 in Spanish. Includes occasional phrases in Ancient Greek, with translations. Includes abstracts in English on pages 377-384.
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Plutarch -- Ethics -- Congresses.
Plutarch -- Ethics -- Congresses.
Plutarch
Literature: history & criticism.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Ethics
Indexed Term Classical Greek philosophy
Classics
intellectual history
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Added Author Roskam, Geert, editor.
Stockt, L. Van der, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Virtues for the people. Leuven : Leuven University Press, ©2011 9789058678584 (DLC) 2011477025 (OCoLC)706651427
ISBN 9789461661180 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9461661185 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9789058678584 (hardback)
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DEBSZ 423655418
GBVCP 1003764185
GBVCP 814298737
NZ1 15381824

 
    
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