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Death and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman
thought, from Homer and early Greek philosophy to Marcus Aurelius.
In this book A. G. Long explains the significance of death and
immortality in ancient ethics, particularly Plato's dialogues,
Stoicism and Epicureanism; he also shows how philosophical
cosmology and theology caused immortality to be re-imagined.
Ancient arguments and theories are related both to the original
literary and theological contexts and to contemporary debates on
the philosophy of death. The book will be of major interest to
scholars and students working on Greek and Roman philosophy, and to
those wishing to explore ancient precursors of contemporary debates
about death and its outcomes.
Immortality was central to ancient philosophical reflections on the
soul, happiness, value and divinity. Conceptions of immortality
flowed into philosophical ethics and theology, and modern
reconstructions of ancient thought in these areas sometimes turn on
the interpretation of immortality. This volume brings together
original research on immortality from early Greek philosophy, such
as the Pythagoreans and Empedocles, to Augustine. The contributors
consider not only arguments concerning the soul's immortality, but
also the diverse and often subtle accounts of what immortality is,
both in Plato and in less familiar philosophers, such as the early
Stoics and Philo of Alexandria. The book will be of interest to all
those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy,
particularly scholars and advanced students.
Immortality was central to ancient philosophical reflections on the
soul, happiness, value and divinity. Conceptions of immortality
flowed into philosophical ethics and theology, and modern
reconstructions of ancient thought in these areas sometimes turn on
the interpretation of immortality. This volume brings together
original research on immortality from early Greek philosophy, such
as the Pythagoreans and Empedocles, to Augustine. The contributors
consider not only arguments concerning the soul's immortality, but
also the diverse and often subtle accounts of what immortality is,
both in Plato and in less familiar philosophers, such as the early
Stoics and Philo of Alexandria. The book will be of interest to all
those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy,
particularly scholars and advanced students.
Death and immortality played a central role in Greek and Roman
thought, from Homer and early Greek philosophy to Marcus Aurelius.
In this book A. G. Long explains the significance of death and
immortality in ancient ethics, particularly Plato's dialogues,
Stoicism and Epicureanism; he also shows how philosophical
cosmology and theology caused immortality to be re-imagined.
Ancient arguments and theories are related both to the original
literary and theological contexts and to contemporary debates on
the philosophy of death. The book will be of major interest to
scholars and students working on Greek and Roman philosophy, and to
those wishing to explore ancient precursors of contemporary debates
about death and its outcomes.
Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to
subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and
detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and
the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions, and together they show the
directness and independence with which Stoics examined Plato's
writing. What were the philosophical incentives to consulting and
then returning to Plato's dialogues? To what extent did Plato,
rather than Xenophon or Antisthenes, control Stoic reconstructions
of Socrates' ethics? What explains the particular focus of Stoic
polemic against Plato, and how strong is the evidence for a later
reconciliation between Plato and Stoicism? This book will be
important for all scholars and advanced students interested in the
relationship between a major philosopher and one of the most
important philosophical movements.
Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to
subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and
detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and
the Greek and Roman Stoic traditions, and together they show the
directness and independence with which Stoics examined Plato's
writing. What were the philosophical incentives to consulting and
then returning to Plato's dialogues? To what extent did Plato,
rather than Xenophon or Antisthenes, control Stoic reconstructions
of Socrates' ethics? What explains the particular focus of Stoic
polemic against Plato, and how strong is the evidence for a later
reconciliation between Plato and Stoicism? This book will be
important for all scholars and advanced students interested in the
relationship between a major philosopher and one of the most
important philosophical movements.
Plato's dialogues were part of a body of fourth-century literature
in which Socrates questioned (and usually got the better of)
friends, associates, and supposed experts. A. G. Long considers how
Plato explained the conversational character of Socratic
philosophy, and how Plato came to credit first Socrates and then,
more generally, the philosopher with an alternative to
conversation-internal dialogue or self-questioning. Conversation
and self-sufficiency in Plato begins with a study of the Platonic
dialogues where conversation and its advantages are discussed, and
the aim of this study is to spell out precisely why, and for what
purposes, Plato treats conversation as necessary or preferable. The
book then traces the emergence of internal dialogue as an
alternative to conversation. After his introduction of internal
dialogue Plato uses dialogue form not only to explore the
attractions of conversation but also to show what is possible
without conversation, and in particular to show how a theory can be
subjected to a proper critique without the direct involvement of
its proponent. Throughout the book Long explores Platonic
discussions of conversation or unaccompanied thought in relation to
the dialogical exchanges in which they are found.
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