A Commentary on Plutarch's de Latenter Vivendo : De latenter vivendo.

Intro -- A Commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition -- 1.1. Λάθε βιώσας: a psychagogic remedy -- 1.2. A two-step cure: ἔλεγχος and νουθέτησις -- 1.2.1. ἔλεγχος -- 1.2.2. νουθέτησις -- 1.3. Three further characteristics of Epicurus' psychagogical approach -- 1.4. Qualifications and restrictions: φρόνησις at work -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 2. The anti-Epicurean tradition before Plutarch -- 2.1. Timocrates -- 2.2. Cicero -- 2.3. The Stoa -- 2.3.1. Early Stoicism -- 2.3.2. Seneca -- 2.3.3. Epictetus -- 3. Plutarch's De latenter vivendo -- 3.1. Introduction: the work and its author -- 3.2. Inconsistency between Epicurus' words and deeds -- 3.3. The ethical arguments -- 3.4. Epicurus' egoistic hedonism versus Plutarch's social commitment -- 3.5. Man as a social being -- 3.6. T he ontological foundations: the connection between being and being known -- 3.7. An eschatological perspective -- 3.8. Conclusion -- 3.8.1. Plutarch as a polemicist: eristic strategies and anti-Epicurean polemic in De latenter vivendo -- 3.8.2. Plutarch's own position as presented in De latenter vivendo -- 3.8.3. Plutarch's philosophical position in De latenter vivendo: a schematic survey -- 3.9. Schematic structure of De latenter vivendo -- Commentary -- Chapter 1 (1128A-C):inconsistency between Epicurus' words and deeds -- 1128A -- 1128B -- 1128BC -- 1128C -- Chapters 2-3 (1128C-1129A): The ethical arguments -- 1128D -- 1128E -- 1128F -- 1129A -- Chapter 4 (1129A-D): Epicurus' egoistic hedonism versus Plutarch's social commitment -- 1129B -- 1129BC -- 1129C -- 1129CD -- 1129D -- Chapter 5 (1129DE): Man as a social being -- 1129E -- Chapter 6 (1129E-1130C): The ontological foundations: the connection between being and being known -- 1129F -- 1130A -- 1130AB -- 1130B.

1130BC -- Chapter 7 (1130C-E): An eschatological perspective -- 1130CD -- 1130D -- 1130E -- Bibliography -- INDICES -- Index locorum.

Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology.In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarch's polemical predecessors (Timocrates, Cicero, the early Stoics, and Seneca) and contemporaries (Epictetus), and by a systematical and detailed analysis of Plutarch's own arguments. The lemmatic commentary offers additional information and parallel passages (both from Plutarch's own works and from others authors) that cast a new light on the text.

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