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 156
... Medea's motivation form part of this dialectic . Thus , to raise the question of Medea's reasons for changing her vengeance - plan is not to invite us to look ' behind ' the surface of the play for some half - disclosed pattern of ...
... Medea's motivation form part of this dialectic . Thus , to raise the question of Medea's reasons for changing her vengeance - plan is not to invite us to look ' behind ' the surface of the play for some half - disclosed pattern of ...
Page 165
... Medea's speech in the agon 252 The nurse's speech also underlines the presence in Medea's speech of the irreversibility of the chain of events which has been composed by their interconnected acts . Medea's acts of betrayal and ...
... Medea's speech in the agon 252 The nurse's speech also underlines the presence in Medea's speech of the irreversibility of the chain of events which has been composed by their interconnected acts . Medea's acts of betrayal and ...
Page 171
... Medea as wholly in the wrong , both in those earlier actions and in this present one.276 With the one- sidedness that he also displayed in the agon , he presents Medea as fundamentally different in kind , as ' a she - lion not a woman ...
... Medea as wholly in the wrong , both in those earlier actions and in this present one.276 With the one- sidedness that he also displayed in the agon , he presents Medea as fundamentally different in kind , as ' a she - lion not a woman ...
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
References to this book
Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature T.D. Hill No preview available - 2004 |