Author : Christos A. Zafiropoulos
Release : 2017-09-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Ethics in Aesop's Fables: The Augustana Collection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics in Aesop's Fables: The Augustana Collection write by Christos A. Zafiropoulos. This book was released on 2017-09-18. Ethics in Aesop's Fables: The Augustana Collection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ethics in Aesop’s Fables: the Augustana Collection offers an original and innovative analysis of the Greek fable in the framework of Greek ethical thinking. The book starts with a brief account of the history and genre of the Greek fable. It then focuses on the Augustana collection of prose fables and analyses its ethical content in the larger context of Greek thought. A detailed comparison of Greek ethical thinking with the language of the fables shows the persistence of certain types of ethical reasoning and of certain key ethical norms. The author argues that although the fable was not 'philosophy', it was indeed 'philosophical' because it communicated normative messages about human behaviour, which reflected widespread views in Greek ethical thought. This book is of special interest to both students and scholars of Greek fable and of Greek philosophy.