Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in DialogueThis is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer, Greek tragedy, and philosophy. The focus in on norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. The key thesis is that, to understand Greek thinking of this type, we need to counteract the subjective andindividualistic aspects of our own thinking about the self. The book defines an 'objective-participant' conception of personality, symbolized by the idea of the person as an interlocutor in a series of types of psychological and ethical dialogue. The book is both an original contribution to thehistory of ideas of personality and the self and also offers sustained analysis and new interpretations of a number of important topics in Greek philosophy and literature. These topics include: Homeric decision-making; the problematic hero in Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy; monologues ofself-division in Greek poetry; the tripartite division of the soul and ethical education in Plato's Republic; Aristotle's ideas about 'being yourself' and meeting the claims of others; Greek philosophical thinking about what it means to be fully 'human' or 'divine'. The book is shaped as a responseto recent work in the philosophy of mind, ethics, personhood, as well as in classical scholarship. Clear and non-technical, with all Greek translated, the book brings out the continuing importance of ancient Greek thinking for contemporary study of ideas of personality and selfhood. |
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Page 44
... Aristotle's comment that ' choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire , and such a source of action is a man ' . She contrasts favourably the approach exemplified here with that in modern theories of personal identity ...
... Aristotle's comment that ' choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire , and such a source of action is a man ' . She contrasts favourably the approach exemplified here with that in modern theories of personal identity ...
Page 101
... Aristotle's analysis in Poetics 13 with the range of situations in extant tragedies find in those plays , and in Aristotle's categoriza- tion of morally complex situations in the ethical works , a number of cases of that kind.19 A ...
... Aristotle's analysis in Poetics 13 with the range of situations in extant tragedies find in those plays , and in Aristotle's categoriza- tion of morally complex situations in the ethical works , a number of cases of that kind.19 A ...
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... Aristotle's move differs from that which is central to their interpretative model in two principal ways . One is that Aristotle's argument in NE 10. 7- 8 , while innovative , is not ' Archimedean ' ( designed to persuade any rational ...
... Aristotle's move differs from that which is central to their interpretative model in two principal ways . One is that Aristotle's argument in NE 10. 7- 8 , while innovative , is not ' Archimedean ' ( designed to persuade any rational ...
Contents
Posing the Questions | 1 |
Being a Hero | 95 |
The Divided Self in Greek Poetry | 177 |
Copyright | |
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Achilles action Adkins Agamemnon Ajax Ajax's akrasia altruism analysis approach argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's beliefs character characterization Chrysippus claim conception of personality conflict context contrast deliberation desire dialectic dialogue discussed earlier emotions Engberg-Pedersen Epicurean Epicurus ethical objectivism ethical theory ethics of reciprocity Euripides exemplary gesture expressed framework functions further Gill Greek philosophical Greek poetic Greek theories Greek thinking Hector's Homeric honour human idea ideal Iliad implied interpersonal interpretation involved Irwin Jason's Kant Kant's Kantian kind MacIntyre Medea mode monologue moral motivation normative objective objective-participant objectivist Odysseus one's participant passage Patroclus pattern personhood philia philo philosopher-rulers Plato's post-dialectical post-reflective pre-reflective presented presupposes problematic heroes psyche psycho-ethical question rational reciprocity reflective debate refs relationship relevant Republic response role second-order reasoning self-consciousness sense Snell speech stance Stoic subjective-individualist suggested taken Tecmessa text to nn thumos tragedy underline understanding virtue virtuous Williams
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