A. G. Long (Scotland University of St Andrews)

Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise and accessible new account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death and immortality, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius. Explores key figures, ideas and debates in Epicurean, Stoic, Presocratic and Platonic philosophy, and relates them to contemporary debates on the philosophy of death.

Produktdetails

• Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781107451568
• ISBN-10: 1107451566
• Artikelnr.: 67118994

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.