Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Xenophontos, Sophia; Marmodoro, Anna

Cambridge University Press

06/2021

300

Dura

Inglês

9781108833691

15 a 20 dias

573

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Introduction Sophia Xenophontos and Anna Marmodoro; Part I. Ethics across the Late Antique and Byzantine Period: 1. Sexual difference and the difference it makes: the Greek Fathers and their sources David Bradshaw; 2. Ethics and the hierarchy of virtues from Plotinus to Iamblichus Riccardo Chiaradonna; 3. Neoplatonic contemplative ethics: mind training Sara Ahbel-Rappe; 4. Ethics, virtue, and theurgy: on being a good person in late-Neoplatonic philosophy John F. Finamore; 5. Imitation and self-examination: the later Neoplatonists on the Platonic dialogue as moral education through visualisation Robbert M. van den Berg; 6. The reception of Greek ethics in Christian monastic writings Benjamin Blosser; 7. Understanding self-determination and moral selfhood in the sources of late-Antique and Byzantine Christian thought Demetrios Harper; 8. 'Singing with David and contemplating Agesilaus': ethical training in Byzantium Leonora Neville; Part II. Prominent Ethical Views of the Time: 9. The ethos of a theologian: Gregory of Nazianzus and the reception of Classical ethics Byron MacDougall; 10. Porphyry on justice towards animals: are animals rational and does it matter for justice? Riin Sirkel; 11. Eustratius of Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in twelfth-century Constantinople: literary criticism, patronage and the construction of the Byzantine commentary tradition Michele Trizio; 12. Michael of Ephesus on the relation of civic happiness to happiness in contemplation Peter Lautner; 13. George Pachymeres' commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: a new witness to philosophical instruction and moral didacticism in late Byzantium Sophia Xenophontos.
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