Plutarch

Essays (eBook, ePUB)

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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...

Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. His work is traditionally divided into two: the Moralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and the Lives or biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection of Parallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.

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