This collection of new essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the reception of classical Greek ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, and will interest scholars and students in the fields of philosophy, classics, patristic theology, social and cultural history of the medieval world, and the history of education.
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were reinvigorated and transformed by later authors to align with their philosophical and religious outlook in each period. Topics examined range from ethics and politics in Neoplatonism and ethos in the context of rhetorical theory and performance to textual exegesis on Aristotelian ethics. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy, classics, patristic theology, and those working on the history of education and the development of Greek ethics.
Recenzijos
'These essays, highly readable and written by recognized and emerging authorities in the field, draw out the consistency and applicability of ethical questions through more than a millenium of Greek philosophy and literature. The editors skilfully bridge diverse periods and disciplines, and many contributions break new ground for future study. This collection should become a standard reference for future scholarship.' Michael Griffin, University of British Columbia ' The Reception of Greek Ethics is an inspiring collection of texts spanning beliefs and centuries of philosophy.' Jonas Christensen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Daugiau informacijos
This volume provides the first authoritative study of the creative appropriation of Greek ethics by late antique and Byzantine authors.
Introduction Sophia Xenophontos and Anna Marmodoro; Part I. Ethics
across the Late Antique and Byzantine Period:
1. Sexual difference and the
difference it makes: the Greek Fathers and their sources David Bradshaw;
2.
Ethics and the hierarchy of virtues from Plotinus to Iamblichus Riccardo
Chiaradonna;
3. Neoplatonic contemplative ethics: mind training Sara
Ahbel-Rappe;
4. Ethics, virtue, and theurgy: on being a good person in
late-Neoplatonic philosophy John F. Finamore;
5. Imitation and
self-examination: the later Neoplatonists on the Platonic dialogue as moral
education through visualisation Robbert M. van den Berg;
6. The reception of
Greek ethics in Christian monastic writings Benjamin Blosser;
7.
Understanding self-determination and moral selfhood in the sources of
late-Antique and Byzantine Christian thought Demetrios Harper;
8. 'Singing
with David and contemplating Agesilaus': ethical training in Byzantium
Leonora Neville; Part II. Prominent Ethical Views of the Time:
9. The ethos
of a theologian: Gregory of Nazianzus and the reception of Classical ethics
Byron MacDougall;
10. Porphyry on justice towards animals: are animals
rational and does it matter for justice? Riin Sirkel;
11. Eustratius of
Nicaea and the Nicomachean Ethics in twelfth-century Constantinople: literary
criticism, patronage and the construction of the Byzantine commentary
tradition Michele Trizio;
12. Michael of Ephesus on the relation of civic
happiness to happiness in contemplation Péter Lautner;
13. George Pachymeres'
commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: a new witness to philosophical
instruction and moral didacticism in late Byzantium Sophia Xenophontos.
Anna Marmodoro is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and an affiliated Faculty member at the University of Oxford. Her research interests span metaphysics, ancient philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. She has written and edited numerous books and essay collections, including Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and their History (co-authored with Erasmus Mayr, 2019) and Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics (forthcoming). Sophia Xenophontos is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Ethical Education in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and Contexts (2016) and Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen (forthcoming), and editor of George Pachymeres' Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (forthcoming). She has published several articles and book chapters on practical ethics, the therapy of the emotions, and the reception of the Greek ethical tradition in late Byzantium.
