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Philosophy in the Roman Empire - Ethics, Politics and Society (Paperback)
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Philosophy in the Roman Empire - Ethics, Politics and Society (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Ancient Philosophy Series
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Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of
Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the
central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social
organization: philosophy as the pursuit of self-improvement and
happiness; the conceptualization and management of emotion;
attitudes and obligations to others; ideas of the self and
personhood; constitutional theory and the ruler; the constituents
and working of the good community. Texts and thinkers discussed
range from Alexander of Aphrodisias, Aspasius and Alcinous, via
Hierocles, Seneca, Musonius, Epictetus, Plutarch and Diogenes of
Oenoanda, to Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius, Lucian, Maximus of Tyre,
Pythagorean pseudepigrapha, and the Tablet of Cebes. The
distinctive doctrines of the individual philosophical schools are
outlined, but also the range of choice that collectively they
presented to the potential philosophical 'convert', and the
contexts in which that choice was encountered. Finally Trapp turns
his attention to the status of philosophy itself as an element of
the elite culture of the period, and to the ways in which
philosophical values may have posed a threat to other prevalent
schemes of value; Trapp argues that the idea of 'philosophical
opposition', though useful, needs to be substantially modified and
extended.
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