Dialog über die Liebe - Amatorius

Plutarch gives Plato's philosophy of love a new direction by applying its basic ideas to marital love and by defending the significance of sexuality for personality development and human bonding. This work is presented here with a literary-oriented introduction, the Greek text has been checked carefully, the German translation aims to be readable and is supplemented by detailed notes. Four essays by various authors are included

The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together, by that grave learned philosopher & historiographer Plutarch of Chaeronea. Tr. out of the Greek into French, by James Amiot ... With the lives of Hannibal & Scipio, African ... into English, by Sir Thomas North. Hereunto are added The lives of Epaminodas, of Phillip of Macedon, ... collected out of Æmilius Probus, by S.G.s. ... The lives of twenty selected eminent persons tr. out of the work of that famous historiographer ... Andrew Thevet.

8 p. ℓ., 1030 (i.e. 1026) [56] p., 2 ℓ., 91 p. illus. (ports.) 36 cm. Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Fall 2012. The abstract was prepared by Christopher Fuelling.https://lux.lawrence.edu/selections/1031/thumbnail.jp

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (title page)

Title page from the 1676 edition of Sir Thomas North\u27s translation of Plutarch\u27s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Scholars surmise that earlier editions of North\u27s translations influenced Shakespeare\u27s work.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/shakespeare/1002/thumbnail.jp

The Life of Coriolanus (selections)

Section from Sir Thomas North\u27s translation of Plutarch\u27s Life of Coriolanus. The story of Coriolanus, a highly successful and infamous Roman aristocratic general. William Shakespeare took inspiration from Plutarch\u27s account and incorporated them into his own play, Coriolanus. Scholars surmise that earlier editions of North\u27s translations influenced Shakespeare\u27s work.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/shakespeare/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Life of Julius Caesar (selections)

Section from Sir Thomas North\u27s translation of Plutarch\u27s Life of Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare took inspiration from Plutarch\u27s account and incorporated it into his own play, Julius Caesar. Scholars surmise that earlier editions of North\u27s translations influenced Shakespeare\u27s work.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/shakespeare/1001/thumbnail.jp

Minding your own business? Understanding indifference as a virtue

Indifference is sometimes described as a virtue. Yet who is indifferent; to what; and in what way is poorly understood, and frequently subject to controversy and confusion. This paper proposes a framework for the interpretation and analysis of ethically acceptable forms of indifference in terms of how different states of indifference can be either more or less dynamic, or more or less sensitive to the nature and state of their object

Normative Judgments and Individual Essence

A growing body of research has examined how people judge the persistence of identity over time—that is, how they decide that a particular individual is the same entity from one time to the next. While a great deal of progress has been made in understanding the types of features that people typically consider when making such judgments, to date, existing work has not explored how these judgments may be shaped by normative considerations. The present studies demonstrate that normative beliefs do appear to play an important role in people's beliefs about persistence. Specifically, people are more likely to judge that the identity of a given entity remains the same when its features improve than when its features deteriorate. Study 1 provides a basic demonstration of this effect. Study 2 shows that this effect is moderated by individual differences in normative beliefs. Study 3 examines the underlying mechanism, which is the belief that, in general, various entities are essentially good. Study 4 directly manipulates beliefs about essence to show that the positivity bias regarding essences is causally responsible for the effec

How ‘demos’ met ‘cracy’: debt, inequality, money

The recurrence of ever more destructive economic crises and patterns of pervasive indebtedness and inequality threaten the social fabric of our societies. Our main responses to these trends have been partial, focusing on symptoms rather than causes, often exacerbating rather than improving the underlying socio-economic dynamics. To reflect on these conditions and on ‘what needs to be done’ this article turns to a similar socio-economic malaise faced by the city-state of Athens in the 6th century BC. Most historical studies dealing with this crisis focus on the comprehensive debt relief policy (seisachteia) implemented by Solon. We argue that this debt relief, although necessary, was the least important of Solon’s reforms. Solon read the problem of debt as a problem of money so he went on to reform the monetary and exchange system. However, he did not think that these reforms alone could restore socioeconomic sustainability. For this, a redefinition of what was counted as valuable economic activity and as income had also to take place. Moreover, for all these to work, citizens had to be involved more in the commons. Far from only achieving socioeconomic sustainability, these reforms gave rise gradually to the demos that we meet in the golden age of Democracy. Such a broad historical horizon may help us grasp better the problems, stakes and challenges of our times