Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

A. G. Long is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has translated (with David Sedley) Plato's Meno and Phaedo (Cambridge, 2010) and is the author of Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (2013) as well as the editor of Plato and the Stoics (Cambridge, 2013).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Immortality: 1. Immortality in early Greek poetry and philosophy; 2. Platonic immortalities; 3. Immortality and the ethics of a finite lifespan: Aristotle, early Stoics and Epicureanism; Part II. Death: 4. Death, doubts and scepticism; 5. Epicurean evaluations of death; 6. Stoic agnosticism and symmetry arguments; 7. Suicide, religion and the city; Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781107451568
ISBN-10:	1107451566
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Long, A. G.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	A. G. Long
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.04.2023
Gewicht:	0,357 kg