A. G. Long

Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9781107086593
• ISBN-10: 1107086590
• Artikelnr.: 56714189

Autorenporträt

A. G. Long is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has translated (with David Sedley) Plato's Meno and Phaedo (Cambridge, 2010) and is the author of Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (2013) as well as the editor of Plato and the Stoics (Cambridge, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Immortality: 1. Immortality in early Greek poetry and philosophy
2. Platonic immortalities
3. Immortality and the ethics of a finite lifespan: Aristotle, early Stoics and Epicureanism
Part II. Death: 4. Death, doubts and scepticism
5. Epicurean evaluations of death
6. Stoic agnosticism and symmetry arguments
7. Suicide, religion and the city
Conclusion.