Virtues for the People

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23136111
EditoresGeert Roskam (0000-0002-8158-6458)
Año2011
Fecha de publicación2011-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaVirtues for the People (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialLeuven University Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.11116/vp_plu
OpenAlexW657111940
ISBN9789461661180
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas70

Plutarch of Chaeronea 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's collected essays deal with these questions from different perspectives and 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.

Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Psychology