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Plutarch's Practical Ethics - The Social Dynamics of Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Plutarch's Practical Ethics - The Social Dynamics of Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Second Sophistic (c.AD 60-250) was a time of intense
competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused
mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman
Empire. This book, which transcends the boundaries between
literature, social history, and philosophy, studies Plutarch's
practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia
designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions
and society's expectations successfully. Lieve Van Hoof combines a
systematic analysis of the general principles underlying Plutarch's
practical ethics, including the author's target readership,
therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, with five
innovative case studies. A picture emerges of philosophy under the
Roman Empire not as a set of abstract, theoretical doctrines, but
as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige for
author and reader alike.
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