Plutarch

Essays (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Goodwin, William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition to his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing out one word here and another there, or by falling foul upon particular passages without the books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Merkaba Press
• Seitenzahl: 201
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610000026654
• Artikelnr.: 59903039

Autorenporträt

Plutarch (c.50-c.120 AD) was a writer and thinker born into a wealthy, established family of Chaeronea in central Greece. He received the best possible education in rhetoric and philosophy, and traveled to Asia Minor and Egypt. Later, a series of visits to Rome and Italy contributed to his fame, which was given official recognition by the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Plutarch rendered conscientious service to his province and city (where he continued to live), as well as holding a priesthood at nearby Delphi. His voluminous surviving writings are broadly divided into the "moral"works and the Parallel Lives of outstanding Greek and Roman leaders. The former (Moralia) are a mixture of rhetorical and antiquarian pieces, together with technical and moral philosophy (sometimes in dialogue form).  The Lives have been influential from the Renaissance onwards.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
ON LISTENING
Introduction
Essay
HOW TO DISTINGUISH A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND
Introduction
Essay
ON BEING AWARE OF MORAL PROGRESS
Introduction
Essay
WHETHER MILITARY OR INTELLECTUAL EXPLOITS HAVE BROUGHT ATHENS MORE FAME
Introduction
Essay
ON THE AVOIDANCE OF ANGER
Introduction
Essay
ON CONTENTMENT
Introduction
Essay
ON GOD'S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH
Introduction
Essay
ON SOCRATES' PERSONAL DEITY
Introduction
Essay
IN CONSOLATION TO HIS WIFE
Introduction
Essay
ON THE USE OF REASON BY 'IRRATIONAL' ANIMALS
Introduction
Essay
Bibliography
Textual Appendix
Descriptive Index of Proper Names