Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 691 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 691 g
Reihe: Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-960062-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
A novel reappraisal of canonical texts from the distinct perspective of pluralism
Offers an inspiringly broad analysis of a critical historical period, covering philosophy, history, and tragedy
The Advent of Pluralism explores how the philosophical position of pluralism - the idea, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, that values and moral codes can and will come into conflict with one another - has clear and important roots in the Classical Greek world. The book falls into three parts each of which focuses on one author and the ways in which pluralism manifests itself in his particular genre. Part I is concerned with the sophist Protagoras, who was one of the world's first philosophers and arguably the first exponent of the idea that there can be more than one perspective on truth. Part II looks at pluralism in historical writing, contrasting the methodological and moral styles of the two best-known Greek historians, Thucydides and Herodotus. Part III, on conflict in the tragedies of Sophocles, uses pluralism as a context in which to make sense of the horrible choices the playwright so powerfully dramatizes. Overall, Lauren Apfel's study identifies a pluralist temper of thought in the age of Sophocles and, in doing so, offers an enriched understanding of this crucial intellectual period.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of classics, and of moral and political philosophy.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
1: Introduction: pluralism and the Greeks
I. Protagoras
2: Pluralism and Protagoras: the plurality of truth
3: Plato's Protagoras: the plurality of value in the sophistic age
II. Herodotus
4: Pluralism and history
5: Pluralism in the histories
III. Sophocles
6: Pluralism and tragedy
7: Ajax: moral certainty
8: Antigone and Electra: moral conflict
9: Philoctetes: moral complexity
