Death and Immortality in Ancient PhilosophyCambridge University Press, 13 Haz 2019 - 232 sayfa 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. |
İçindekiler
Immortality in Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy | 7 |
Platonic Immortalities | 29 |
Aristotle | 63 |
Death Doubts and Scepticism | 89 |
Epicurean Evaluations of Death | 115 |
Stoic Agnosticism and Symmetry Arguments | 152 |
Suicide Religion and the City | 174 |
Conclusion | 205 |
| 220 | |
| 230 | |
Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
Sık kullanılan terimler ve kelime öbekleri
according afterlife ancient Apology argues Aristotle Aristotle’s attitude to death awareness Axiochus becomes immortal believe body Cebes chapter Chrysippus Cicero claim Compare concern consider context contrast cosmos creatures dead describes desire dialogue Diogenes Laertius Diotima distress Empedocles Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus everlasting everlastingness evil example existence fear of death future godlike gods harm Herodotus Homer human imperishable injustice intellectual interlocutor interpretation intra-cosmic Key Doctrine kind lack last forever Laws least Letter to Menoeceus living Lucretius Marcus means Menoeceus merely Moral Ends mortal motion myth nature Nicomachean Ethics object one’s outcome pain Panaetius pang passage person Phaedo Phaedrus Philodemus philosophers Pindar Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry possess punishment Pythagorean question rational soul reason reincarnation renown resembles says scepticism Sedley self-mover Seneca sense Simmias Socrates someone soul’s immortality Stoic Stoicism suggests suicide survive Symmetry argument theory thought Timaeus Tusculans virtue virtuous Warren writing