The Ethics of Homer
Author: Albert Augustus Trever
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
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The Heart of Achilles
Author: Graham Zanker
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780472084005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the moral choices and values Homer offers in his Iliad
Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Maria Liatsi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 3110699613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.
Homeric Morality
Author: Naoko Yamagata
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9789004098725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume describes both divine and human behaviour in Homer through exhaustive surveys of relevant terms and episodes. It is a critical response to A.W.H. Adkins' "Merit and Responsibility" and H. Lloyd- Jones' "The Justice of Zeus."
Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece
Author: Joseph M. Bryant
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780791430415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a comprehensive historical-sociological analysis of the Polis form of social organization, which charts the evolution of its basic institutions, roles, statuses, and class relations. From the Dark Age period of "genesis" on to the Hellenistic era of "eclipse" by the emergent forces of imperial patrimonialism, Polis society promoted and sustained corresponding normative codes which mobilized and channeled the requisite emotive commitments and cognitive judgments for functional proficiency under existing conditions of life. The aristocratic warrior-ethos canonized in the Homeric epics; the civic ideology of equality and justice espoused by reformist lawgivers and poets; the democratization of status honor and martial virtue that attended the shift to hoplite warfare; the philosophical exaltation of the Polis-citizen bond as found in the architectonic visions of Plato and Aristotle; and the subsequent retreat from civic virtues and the interiorization of value articulated by the Skeptics, Epicureans, and Stoics, new age philosophies in a world remade by Alexander's conquests--these are the key phases in the evolving currents of Hellenic moral discourse, as structurally framed by transformations within the institutional matrix of Polis society.
The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey
Author: Alexander Carl Loney
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0190909676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe archaic context of vengeance -- Vengeance in the Odyssey: tisis as narrative -- Three narratives of divine vengeance -- Odysseus' terrifying revenge -- The multiple meanings of Odysseus' triumphs -- The end of the Odyssey.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics
Author: Roger Crisp
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 0191655767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and includes in addition essays on topics such as autonomy and impartiality. The authors are international leaders in their field, and use their expertise and specialist knowledge to illuminate the relevance of their work to discussions in contemporary ethics. The essays are specially written for this volume, and in each case introduce the reader to the main lines of interpretation and criticism that have arisen in the professional history of philosophy over the past two or three decades.
The Iliad as Politics
Author: Dean Hammer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780806133669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the Iliad, through their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters' many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
Homer and Hesiod
Author: Richard Gotshalk
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHomer and Hesiod, Myth and Philosophy is a study of the nature and function of the poetry of Homer and Hesiod when their work is considered in historical context as the initial significant developments of poetry as a distinctive voice for truth beyond religion and myth. To understand their innovations properly, this work begins with the presentation of an account of the nature of religion and myth and in particular of the disclosure of truth achieved in myth. Then it takes up the Homeric and Hesiodic innovations which transform the bardic poetry that was heritage from at least Mycenaean times and that make the inspired poet an educative voice for truth. After giving an account of the four major poems in which this transformation is embodied: Illiad and Odyssey, Theogony and Works and Days, the work concludes with a discussion of how these creations shaped the matrix within which philosophy arose. In this way it points to why the distinctive realization of philosophy in Greece (as contrasted with that in China and India) involved what the Platonic Socrates can speak of as "an ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy."
The Simpsons and Philosophy
Author: William Irwin
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0812696948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unconventional and lighthearted introduction to the ideas of the major Western philosophers examines The Simpsons — TV’s favorite animated family. The authors look beyond the jokes, the crudeness, the attacks on society — and see a clever display of irony, social criticism, and philosophical thought. The writers begin with an examination of the characters. Does Homer actually display Aristotle’s virtues of character? In what way does Bart exemplify American pragmatism? The book also examines the ethics and themes of the show, and concludes with discussions of how the series reflects the work of Aristotle, Marx, Camus, Sartre, and other thinkers.
