Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery
The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 November 2016
- ISBN 9780198777274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages310 pages
- Size 240x162x23 mm
- Weight 598 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This work considers ideas about the legitimacy of slavery in ancient Greek, Jewish, New Testament, and Early Christian thought, as well as the actual practices with regard to slave ownership employed by these thinkers.
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Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, 'natural' (Aristotle), or at best something morally 'indifferent' (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, and that these came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity, and occasionally also in Greco-Roman ('pagan') philosophy. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between asceticism and renunciation, but also between asceticism and justice, at least in ancient and late antique philosophical asceticism.
Ramelli provides a careful investigation through all of Ancient Philosophy (not only Aristotle and the Stoics, but also the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, the Neoplatonists, and much more), Ancient to Rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic Jewish ascetic groups such as the Essenes and the Therapeutae, all of the New Testament, with special focus on Paul and Jesus, and Greek, Latin, and Syriac Patristic, from Clement and Origen to the Cappadocians, from John Chrysostom to Theodoret to Byzantine monastics, from Ambrose to Augustine, from Bardaisan to Aphrahat, without neglecting the Christianized Sentences of Sextus. In particular, Ramelli considers Gregory of Nyssa and the interrelation between theory and practice in all of these ancient and patristic philosophers, as well as to the parallels that emerge in their arguments against slavery and against social injustice.
Ramelli pursues fascinating historical work... This is an effective and illuminating lens through which to regard this broad range of material, as it enables Ramelli to compare the real social impact of diverse ancient philosophical, theological, and ethical positions. Surveying this vast tradition with remarkable agility and acumen... Ramelli's strategy is illuminating and refreshing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Status quaestionis, methodological guidelines, and contribution to research
The Background: Greek Philosophy and Ancient Judaism
The New Testament and the Enigma of Paul
Patristic Thinkers: A Range of Positions toward Slavery
Patristic Contrasts: Augustine and Theodore vs. Basil and John Chrysostom
Gregory of Nyssa: The Theological Arguments
Gregory of Nyssa's Family and Origen: Parallels between Rejection of Slavery and Rejection of Social Injustice
Gregory of Narianzen and Other Ascetics: The Importance of Asceticism in the Rejection of Slavery
Conclusions
Bibliography
Indices
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