TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roskam,Geert
TI  - A Commentary on Plutarch's de Latenter Vivendo: De latenter vivendo
T2  - Plutarchea Hypomnemata Series
SN  - 9789461660190
AV  - PA4368.D49 -- R67 2007eb 
U1  - 880 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leuven
PB  - Leuven University Press
KW  - Plutarch. -- De latenter vivendo
KW  - Epicurus
KW  - Ethics, Ancient
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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