Author: Hierocles
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329338820
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Little is known about 2nd century Greek Stoic philosopher Hierocles. He was famous for his Elements of Ethics, a book which was thought to be lost until part of it was discovered in a papyrus fragment in 1901. The 300 line fragment discusses self-perception, and argues that all birds, reptiles, and mammals from the moment of birth perceive themselves continuously and that self-perception is both the primary and the most basic faculty of animals. Other surviving excerpts of Hierocles' writings focus on social relationships, marriage, household, and family. The Greek Stoic describes life as a series of concentric circles: the first circle is the human mind, next comes the immediate family, followed by extended family, the local community, neighboring towns, one's country and finally the entire human race. The discovered papyrus and all other extant fragments have been collected, translated and revised in Ethical Fragments, the most complete single volume of Hierocles' writings available.
Author: Ilaria Ramelli
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1589834186
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Hierocles, the Stoic philosopher of the early imperial age, is a crucial witness to Middle and Neo-Stoicism, especially with regard to their ethical philosophy. In this volume, all of Hierocles surviving works are translated into English for the first time, with the original Greek and a facing English translation: the Elements of Ethics, preserved on papyrus, along with all fragments and excerpts from the treatise On Duties, collected by Stobaeus in the fifth century C.E. and dealing mainly with social relationships, marriage, household, and family. In addition, Ramelli s introductory essay demonstrates how Hierocles was indebted to the Old Stoa and how he modified its doctrines in accord with Middle Stoicism and further developments in philosophy as well as his personal views. Finally, Ramelli s extensive commentary on Hierocles works clarifies philosophical questions raised by the text and provides rich and updated references to existing scholarship.
Author: Larry L. Rasmussen
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9780800627577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Western society today lives from community fragments and moral fragments alone, and these fragments are being destroyed more quickly than they are being replenished. Larry Rasmussen assesses the long-term reasons for this situation and then proposes the forms and tasks that churches can undertake to help mend and improve civil society. This book, which had its origin in the Hein/Fry Lectures in 1991-92, functions both as an assessment of the moral climate in America today and also as a proposal for the church in contemporary society.
Author: George Grote
Publisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Author: David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198758677
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Early Greek Ethics is the first volume devoted to philosophical ethics in its "formative" period. It explores contributions from the Presocratics, figures of the early Pythagorean tradition, sophists, and anonymous texts, as well as topics influential to ethical philosophical thought such as Greek medicine, music, friendship, and justice.
Author: W. Glenn Kirkconnell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441146733
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Søren Kierkegaard is simultaneously one of the most obscure philosophers of the Western world and one of the most influential. His writings have influenced atheists and faithful alike. Yet there is still widespread disagreement on many of the most important aspects of his thought. Kierkegaard was deliberately obscure in his writings, forcing the reader to interpret and reflect as Socrates did with incessant questioning. But at the same time that Kierkegaard was producing his esoteric, pseudonymous philosophical writings, he was also producing simpler, direct religious writings. Kierkegaard always claimed that he was, despite appearances, a religious writer. This important book accepts that claim and tests it. By using Kierkegaard's direct writings as he suggests, as the key to understanding the more obscure, indirect works, W. Glenn Kirkconnell aims to develop a coherent understanding of Kierkegaard's authorship and his theories.
Author: Iamblichus
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387089449
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: Daniel W. Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521845912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
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This two-part volume collects the complete fragments and most important testimonies for the leading presocratic philosophers. The Greek and Latin texts are translated on facing pages and accompanied by a brief commentary for each philosopher.
Author: George Grote
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330061947
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Excerpt from Fragments on Ethical Subjects When Mr. Grote's vast collection of MSS. came to be thoroughly examined, there were discovered several Essays in Ethics, which appeared to be sufficiently consecutive and complete to be given to the world. The work on Plato afforded him opportunities for discussing various points of Ethical theory; and he turned these opportunities to good account: but in none of his published writings had he treated systematically of the questions relating to Morals, in the form that they usually assume in the treatises of modern writers. Ethical Philosophy formed, all through life, one of his chief lines of study. He had followed its development, both as to its theoretical foundations and as to its practical or preceptive details, in ancient and in modern times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
