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 90
... noted earlier , dismisses Wolff's claim that Hector's monologue expresses ' tragic guilt ' , on the grounds that Hector ( like other Homeric figures ) does not possess the kind of self - conscious agency , and the ability to make ...
... noted earlier , dismisses Wolff's claim that Hector's monologue expresses ' tragic guilt ' , on the grounds that Hector ( like other Homeric figures ) does not possess the kind of self - conscious agency , and the ability to make ...
Page 187
... noted earlier , Homeric inner dialogues occur at moments of exceptional isolation , in which the figure is unable to engage in the kind of interpersonal exchange that is the normal mode of Homeric deliberation , and is thus driven to ...
... noted earlier , Homeric inner dialogues occur at moments of exceptional isolation , in which the figure is unable to engage in the kind of interpersonal exchange that is the normal mode of Homeric deliberation , and is thus driven to ...
Page 414
... noted already certain Aristotelian and Stoic comments on these ( typically , dis- tinguishing the functions of human from non - human animals ) , and I begin with these . The features are , broadly speaking : the capacity for ...
... noted already certain Aristotelian and Stoic comments on these ( typically , dis- tinguishing the functions of human from non - human animals ) , and I begin with these . The features are , broadly speaking : the capacity for ...
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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Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature T.D. Hill No preview available - 2004 |