Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor A. G. Long is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has translated (with David Sedley) Plato's Meno and Phaedo (Cambridge, 2010) and is the author of Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (2013) as well as the editor of Plato and the Stoics (Cambridge, 2013). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Immortality: 1. Immortality in early Greek poetry and philosophy; 2. Platonic immortalities; 3. Immortality and the ethics of a finite lifespan: Aristotle, early Stoics and Epicureanism; Part II. Death: 4. Death, doubts and scepticism; 5. Epicurean evaluations of death; 6. Stoic agnosticism and symmetry arguments; 7. Suicide, religion and the city; Conclusion.

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• Authors: A. G. Long, A. G. (University of St Andrews Long, Long A. G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781107086593
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08659-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Key Themes in Ancient Philosop; Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; RELIGION / Spirituality, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Theology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Devotional, Theology, Spirituality & religious experience, Ancient History, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Spirituality and religious experience, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies