The Soul of the Greeks - Michael Davis

The Soul of the Greeks

An Inquiry

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2011
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-13796-4 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
Analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's "Iliad", this work lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life.
The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however, conceived of the soul quite differently. In this ambitious new work, Michael Davis analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what he calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's "Iliad", Davis lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life. He then turns to Aristotle's "De Anima" and "Nicomachean Ethics" to explore the consequences of the problem of Achilles across the whole range of the soul's activity. Moving to Herodotus and Euripides, Davis considers the former's portrayal of the two extremes of culture - one rooted in stability and tradition, the other in freedom and motion - and explores how they mark the limits of character formation.
Davis then shows how Helen and Iphigeneia among the Taurians serve to provide dramatic examples of Herodotus' extreme cultures and their consequences for the soul. The book concludes with Plato's presentation of the soul of Socrates as self-aware and nontragic, even if it is necessarily alienated and divided against itself.

Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.4.2011
Reihe/Serie Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-226-13796-1 / 0226137961
ISBN-13 978-0-226-13796-4 / 9780226137964
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