Gandhi and the Stoics - 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 Gandhi and the Stoics write by Richard Sorabji. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Gandhi and the Stoics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Was Gandhi a philosopher? Yes.” So begins this remarkable investigation of the guiding principles that motivated the transformative public acts of one of the top historical figures of the twentieth century. Richard Sorabji, continuing his exploration of the many connections between South Asian thought and ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, brings together in this volume the unlikely pairing of Mahatma Gandhi and the Stoics, uncovering a host of parallels that suggests a deep affinity spanning the two millennia between them. While scholars have long known Gandhi’s direct Western influences to be Platonic and Christian, Sorabji shows how a look at Gandhi’s convergence with the Stoics works mutually, throwing light on both of them. Both emphasized emotional detachment, which provided a necessary freedom, a suspicion of universal rules of conduct that led to a focus not on human rights but human duties—the personally determined paths each individual must make for his or her self. By being indifferent, paradoxically, both the Stoics and Gandhi could love manifoldly. In drawing these links to the fore, Sorabji demonstrates the comparative consistency of Gandhi’s philosophical ideas, isolating the specific ideological strengths that were required to support some of the most consequential political acts and experiments in how to live.
The Virtue of Nonviolence
The Virtue of Nonviolence - 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 The Virtue of Nonviolence write by Nicholas F. Gier. This book was released on 2004-01-01. The Virtue of Nonviolence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study in comparative virtue ethics.
Stoicism and Emotion
Stoicism and Emotion - 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 Stoicism and Emotion write by Margaret R. Graver. This book was released on 2011-04-25. Stoicism and Emotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. Stoicism and Emotion shows that they did not simply advocate an across-the-board suppression of feeling, as stoicism implies in today's English, but instead conducted a searching examination of these powerful psychological responses, seeking to understand what attitude toward them expresses the deepest respect for human potential.
The Greeks and the New
The Greeks and the New - 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 The Greeks and the New write by Armand D'Angour. This book was released on 2011-09-15. The Greeks and the New available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to relating this to the forces of traditionalism and conservatism which were also present across all the various societies within ancient Greece. What inspired the Greeks to embark on their unique and enduring innovations? How did they think and feel about the new? This book represents the first serious attempt to address these issues, and deals with the phenomenon across all periods and areas of classical Greek history and thought. Each chapter concentrates on a different area of culture or thought, while the book as a whole argues that much of the impulse towards innovation came from the life of the polis which provided its setting.
Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations
Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations - 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 Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations write by M. D. Usher. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Plato's Pigs and Other Ruminations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience – from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule – Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.
