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Hardcover Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy Book

ISBN: 0199583269

ISBN13: 9780199583263

Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy

The Second Sophistic (c.AD 60-250) was a time of intense competition for honour and status. Like today, this often caused mental as well as physical stress for the elite of the Roman Empire. This book, which transcends the boundaries between literature, social history, and philosophy, studies Plutarch's practical ethics, a group of twenty-odd texts within the Moralia designed to help powerful Greeks and Romans manage their ambitions and society's...

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