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Poets, Philosophers, and the Birth of Greek Moral Thought

by Alban Pope
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235105256
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
  • Publisher Imprint: Colloquium Verlag
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  • Pages: 142
  • Original Price: GBP 11.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 173 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Greece

The story of Greek moral thought begins long before philosophy had a name, before the first thinkers whom later ages would call philosophoi attempted to give rational accounts of virtue, justice, or the good life. It begins in a world shaped by song, ritual, and memory, a world in which the earliest moral insights were not argued but narrated, not demonstrated but performed. The Greeks themselves believed that their poets were the first teachers of humanity, and in many ways they were right. The earliest Greek reflections on what it means to live well, to act justly, or to honor the gods emerged from the verses of Homer and Hesiod, from the choral odes of Pindar, and from the tragic stage where Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides dramatized the conflicts of conscience and community. These poets did not offer systematic ethical theories, yet their works contain the seeds of the questions that would later define Western moral philosophy.

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