Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Xenophontos, Sophia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were reinvigorated and transformed by later authors to align with their philosophical and religious outlook in each period. Topics examined range from ethics and politics in Neoplatonism and ethos in the context of rhetorical theory and performance to textual exegesis on Aristotelian ethics. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy, classics, patristic theology, and those working on the history of education and the development of Greek ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108988001
• Artikelnr.: 62747571

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sophia Xenophontos and Anna Marmodoro; Part I. Ethics across
the Late Antique and Byzantine Period: 1. Sexual difference and the
difference it makes: the Greek Fathers and their sources David Bradshaw; 2.
Ethics and the hierarchy of virtues from Plotinus to Iamblichus Riccardo
Chiaradonna; 3. Neoplatonic contemplative ethics: mind training Sara
Ahbel-Rappe; 4. Ethics, virtue, and theurgy: on being a good person in
late-Neoplatonic philosophy John F. Finamore; 5. Imitation and
self-examination: the later Neoplatonists on the Platonic dialogue as moral
education through visualisation Robbert M. van den Berg; 6. The reception
of Greek ethics in Christian monastic writings Benjamin Blosser; 7.
Understanding self-determination and moral selfhood in the sources of
late-Antique and Byzantine Christian thought Demetrios Harper; 8. 'Singing
with David and contemplating Agesilaus': ethical training in Byzantium
Leonora Neville; Part II. Prominent Ethical Views of the Time: 9. The ethos
of a theologian: Gregory of Nazianzus and the reception of Classical ethics
Byron MacDougall; 10. Porphyry on justice towards animals: are animals
rational and does it matter for justice? Riin Sirkel; 11. Eustratius of
Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in twelfth-century Constantinople:
literary criticism, patronage and the construction of the Byzantine
commentary tradition Michele Trizio; 12. Michael of Ephesus on the relation
of civic happiness to happiness in contemplation Péter Lautner; 13. George
Pachymeres' commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: a new witness to
philosophical instruction and moral didacticism in late Byzantium Sophia
Xenophontos.