Virtues for the people
Subtitle: aspects of Plutarchan ethics
By: edited by Geert Roskam and Luc Van der Stockt
Series: Plutarchea hypomnemata
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789058678584
Subjects: Ethics; Congresses
Description: "Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch's authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions), they have attracted only limited scholarly attention. Virtues for the People contains a collection of essays that deal with these questions from different perspectives and as such throw a new light upon this multifaceted domain of Plutarch's thinking and writing. Special points of interest are the concept of 'popular philosophy' itself and its implications, its dependence on a more theoretical philosophical background, and the importance of moral progress, the therapy of wickedness, and the common experiences of everyday life"--Publisher.
Notes: Originally presented at an international conference in Delphi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-349) and index.