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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2002 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings togetherseventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, Ulpian, Augustine, the Neoplatonist tradition, women philosophers, provision for basic human needs, the development of law, the formulation of imperial power, and the interpretation of Judaism and early Christianity. Emperors and drop-outs, media stars and administrators, top politicians and abstruse professionals, even ordinary citizens in their epitaphs, were variously called philosophers. Philosophy could offer those in power moral support or confrontation, a language for making choices or an intellectual diversion, but they might disregard philosophy and get on with the exercise of power. 'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', but what was the power of philosophy? Contents: Bibliography of Works by Miriam T. Griffin Notes on Contributors Introduction: Philosophy and Power - Gillian Clark and Tessa Rajak I. Philosophy and the State Did Socrates Agree to Obey the Laws of Athens? - Lesley Brown The Worth of Human Dignity: Two Tensions in Stoic Cosmopolitanism - Martha C. Nussbaum Cicero and the Defining of the Ius Civile - Jill Harries Government and Law: Ulpian, a Philosopher in Politics? - Fergus Millar II. The Power of Philosophy Academic Therapy: Philo of Larissa and Cicero's Project in the Tusculans - Malcolm Schofield Beyond Comparison: M. Sergius, Fortunae Victor - Mary Beagon Women, Power, and Philosophy at Rome and Beyond - Barbara Levick Philosophy in the Second Sophistic - Glen W. Bowersock III. Power Cicero: A Man of Letters in Politics - Zvi Yavetz Deus or Divus: The Genesis of Roman Terminology for Deified Emperors and a Philosopher's Contribution - David Wardle Arcanum Imperii: The Powers of Augustus - Hannah M. Cotton and Alexander Yakobson An Emperor is Made: Senatorial Politics and Trajan's Adoption by Nerva in 97 - Werner Eck IV. Philosophy and Religion 'Foolishness to the Greeks': Jews and Christians in the Public Life of the Empire - Loveday Alexander Old Philosophy and New Power: Cicero in Fifth-Century North Africa - Margaret Atkins The Creation of Orthodoxy in Neoplatonism - Polymnia Athanassiadi Ancient Philosophers - Jonathan Barnes.…

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 290 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Imagine a world in which most of the knowledge you possess originates from the verbal reports of other people. These reports are usually based on the first-hand observations of the reporter, him- or herself, and the reporter's primary intention is to inform you of his or her observations. Now imagine another world descended from the first. In this second world, most of your knowledge still depends on others' reports, only now others' reports also come in the form of encoded symbols inscribed on relatively stable physical media. As in the first world, the primary intention of reporters is an informative one. The use of physical media in conjunction with verbal reports facilitates longer chains of reports: people often report to you another person's observations, the third person having inscribed his or her first-hand observation on a physical medium. …