Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

Herausgeber: Long, A. G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did the ancients understand immortality? This collection of original research ranges widely from early Greek philosophy through the Platonist tradition to Augustine, and will benefit all those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy and theology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781108941006
• ISBN-10: 1108941001
• Artikelnr.: 67132117

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction A. G. Long; 1. The soul and the celestial afterlife in Greek
philosophy before Plato Simon Trépanier; 2. Pythagorean immortality of the
soul? Phillip Sidney Horky; 3. The philosopher's reward: Contemplation and
immortality in Plato's dialogues Suzanne Obdrzalek; 4. Pre-existence,
life-after-death, and atemporal beings in Plato's Phaedo Catherine
Rowett; 5. The immortal and the imperishable in Aristotle, early Stoicism
and Epicureanism A. G. Long; 6. Socrates and the symmetry argument James
Warren; 7. Immortality in Philo of Alexandria Sami Yli-Karjanmaa; 8.
Plotinus on immortality and the problem of personal identity Lloyd P.
Gerson; 9. Truth and immortality in Augustine's Soliloquies and De
Immortalitate Animae, Sebastian Gertz.