The soul of the Greeks : an inquiry /

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Michael, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Soul.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Soul in literature.
Âme.
Philosophie ancienne.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Âme dans la littérature.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Greek literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The soul of Achilles
  • Aristotle
  • The doubleness of soul
  • Out of itself for the sake of itself
  • Nutritive soul
  • Sensing soul: vision
  • Thinking soul. Sensation and imagination ; Passive and active mind ; Imagination and thought
  • The soul as self and self-aware
  • "The father of the Logos"
  • "For the friend is another self"
  • Herodotus: the rest and motion of soul
  • Rest in motion: Herodotus's Egypt
  • Motion at rest: Herodotus's Scythians
  • Euripides: soul as same and other
  • The fake that launched a thousand ships: the duplicity of identity in the Helen
  • Euripides among the Athenians: the double vision of soul in Iphigeneia among the Taurians
  • Plato
  • The soul of the law: Gyges in Herodotus and in Plato
  • The subject of justice: on Plato's Cleitophon
  • The object of tyranny: Plato's Hipparchus
  • Plato's Phaedrus: Er's and the structure of soul
  • The grammar of soul: the middle voice in Plato's Euthyphro
  • The soul of Socrates.

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