The Philosophical Life /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Urbano, Arthur P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Neoplatonism.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Christian biography.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > Religious.
Neo-platonisme > Histoire.
Neo-platonisme > Biographies.
Philosophie > Histoire.
Philosophie > Biographies.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Biographies chretiennes.
Neoplatonism > History.
Neoplatonism > Biography.
Philosophy > History.
Philosophy > Biography.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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