The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 of 3: With an English Translation by Wilmer Cave Wright, Ph. D., Late of Girton College, Cambridge, Associate ... Mawr College, Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Julian, Julian

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ISBN 10: 1333806833 ISBN 13: 9781333806835

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 of 3: With an English Translation by Wilmer Cave Wright, Ph. D., Late of Girton College, Cambridge, Associate Professor of Greek in Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

In this as in the Seventh Oration Julians aim is to reform the New Cynics, but still more to demonstrate the essential unity of philosophy. He sympathised profoundly with the tenets of Cynicism, and ranked Diogenes with Socrates as a moral teacher. He reminds the Cynics whom he satirises that the famous admonition of Diogenes to counter mark 2 or forge a new coinage is not to be taken as an excuse for license and impudence, but like the Delphic precept Know Thyself warns all philosophers to accept no traditional authority, no convention that has not been examined and approved by the reason of the individual. His conviction that all philosophical tenets are in harmony if rightly understood, gives a peculiar earnestness to his Apologia for Diogenes. The reference in the first paragraph to the summer solstice seems to indicate that the Oration was written before Julian left Constantinople in order to prepare for the Persian campaign.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1333806833
• ISBN 13: 9781333806835
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 532