Virtues for the people : aspects of Plutarchan ethics
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Virtues for the people : aspects of Plutarchan ethics
（Plutarchea hypomnemata）
Leuven University Press, c2011
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Originally presented at an international conference in Delphi
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-349) and index
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Description
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 for the People contains a collection of essays that deal with these questions from different perspectives and as such 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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Table of Contents
Efficiency and Effectiveness of Plutarch's Broadcasting Ethics
G. Roskam - L. Van der Stockt
1. Virtues for the people
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
2. Some theoretical questions on ethical praxis
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
3. Virtues and vices
Plutarch's 'Minor' Ethics: Some Remarks on De garrulitate, De curiositate, and De vitioso pudore
A.G. Nikolaidis
Plutarchs Schrift gegen das Borgen (ΠεÏὶ τοῦ μὴ δεῖν δανείζεσθαι): Adressaten, Lehrziele und Genos
H.G. Ingenkamp
Competition and its Costs: Φιλονικία in Plutarch's Society and Heroes
Ph.A. Stadter
4. 'Popular philosophy' in context
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'oeuvre de Plutarque
F. Frazier
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Abstracts
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