The philosophical life : biography and the crafting of intellectual identity in late antiquity /

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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as the author argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Urbano, Arthur P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Colección:Patristic monograph series ; no. 21.
Temas:
30-600
Christian biography.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Philosophy > Biography.
Philosophy > History.
Neoplatonism > Biography.
Neoplatonism > History.
Biographies chrétiennes.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Philosophie > Biographies.
Philosophie > Histoire.
Néo-platonisme > Biographies.
Néo-platonisme > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > Religious.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Christian biography
Church history > Primitive and early church
Neoplatonism
Philosophy
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Biography as Arena of Philosophical Competition
  • The Roots That Remain
  • Moses and Pythagoras : Reading the Bios as Philosophical History
  • Plotinus and Origen : Biography and the Renewal of Philosophy
  • Constantine and Julian : The Politics of Philosophy
  • The Cell and the School : Geographical and Social Distance in the Competition for Philosophy
  • Macrina and Sosipatra : Beyond Their Nature
  • Syrian Monks and Proclus : Athens at the Periphery and Center of Philosophy in the Fifth Century
  • Epilogue.

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