A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo:
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Main Author: Roskam, Geert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven Leuven University Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-245) and indexes
Plutarch''s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus'' famous ideal of an ''unnoticed life'' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch''s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch''s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus'' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarc
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
ISBN:905867603X
9461660197
9789058676030
9789461660190

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