Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy
From Heraclitus to Plotinus
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 October 2022
- ISBN 9780198803393
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages282 pages
- Size 241x163x22 mm
- Weight 584 g
- Language English 257
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Short description:
A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy, ranging over seven centuries of innovative thought. He shows how the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness, and draws out the relevance of the book's themes for modern discussions of the self.
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A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy. The discussion ranges over seven centuries of innovative thought, starting with Heraclitus' injunction to listen to the cosmic logos, and concluding with Plotinus' criticism of those who make embodiment essential to human identity. For the Greek philosophers the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity and happiness called eudaimonia, meaning a god-favoured life or a life of likeness to the divine. While these questions are remote from current thought, Long also situates the book's themes in modern discussions of the self and the self's normative relation to other people and the world at large. Ideas and behaviour attributed to Socrates and developed by Plato are at the book's centre. They are preceded by essays that explore general facets of the soul's rationality. Later chapters bring in salient contributions made by Aristotle and Stoic philosophers. All but one of these pieces has been previously published in periodicals or conference volumes, but the author has revised and updated everything. The book is written in a style that makes it accessible to many kinds of reader, not only professors and graduate students but also anyone interested in the history of our identity as rational animals.
In Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy, a sequel to Greek Models of Mind and Self, the reader is given the privilege to peer into the laboratory of A. A. Long's scholarly life, in which he spent many years traveling the highways and byways of ancient Greek thought. This book gives the reader the opportunity to become acquainted with the author's hitherto unfinished project, the fruit of his personal, extended, and productive scholarly adventure in the vast Greek world.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Finding Oneself in Greek Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy's Hardest Question: What to make of Oneself?
Eudaimonism, Divinity, and Rationality in Greek Ethics
Heraclitus on Measure and the Explicit Emergence of Rationality
Parmenides on Thinking Being
Socratic Idiosyncrasy and Cynic Exhibitionism
Socrates' Divine Sign
Politics and Divinity in Plato's Republic: The Form of the Good
Platonic Souls as Persons
Cosmic Craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism
Aristotle on Eudaimonia, Nous, and Divinity
Second Selves and Stoic Friends
Marcus Aurelius on the Self
Plotinus On Self and Happiness
Epilogue
