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Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

A. G. Long (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83228-1 (ISBN)
CHF 129,95 inkl. MwSt
How did the ancients understand immortality? This collection of original research ranges widely from early Greek philosophy through the Platonist tradition to Augustine, and will benefit all those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy and theology.
Immortality was central to ancient philosophical reflections on the soul, happiness, value and divinity. Conceptions of immortality flowed into philosophical ethics and theology, and modern reconstructions of ancient thought in these areas sometimes turn on the interpretation of immortality. This volume brings together original research on immortality from early Greek philosophy, such as the Pythagoreans and Empedocles, to Augustine. The contributors consider not only arguments concerning the soul's immortality, but also the diverse and often subtle accounts of what immortality is, both in Plato and in less familiar philosophers, such as the early Stoics and Philo of Alexandria. The book will be of interest to all those interested in immortality and divinity in ancient philosophy, particularly scholars and advanced students.

A. G. Long is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (2013) and Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (2019). He edited Plato and the Stoics (2013) and translated, with David Sedley, Plato's Meno and Phaedo for Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (2010).

Introduction A. G. Long; 1. The soul and the celestial afterlife in Greek philosophy before Plato Simon Trépanier; 2. Pythagorean immortality of the soul? Phillip Sidney Horky; 3. The philosopher's reward: Contemplation and immortality in Plato's dialogues Suzanne Obdrzalek; 4. Pre-existence, life-after-death, and atemporal beings in Plato's Phaedo Catherine Rowett; 5. The immortal and the imperishable in Aristotle, early Stoicism and Epicureanism A. G. Long; 6. Socrates and the symmetry argument James Warren; 7. Immortality in Philo of Alexandria Sami Yli-Karjanmaa; 8. Plotinus on immortality and the problem of personal identity Lloyd P. Gerson; 9. Truth and immortality in Augustine's Soliloquies and De Immortalitate Animae, Sebastian Gertz.  

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 230 mm
Gewicht 470 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-83228-8 / 1108832288
ISBN-13 978-1-108-83228-1 / 9781108832281
Zustand Neuware
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