Passions and moral progress in Greco-Roman thought /
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First Statement of Responsibility
edited by John T. Fitzgerald.
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New York :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxiii, 392 pages ;
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24 cm.
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Routledge monographs in classical studies
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-355) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The passions and moral progress : an introduction / John T. Fitzgerald -- Aristotle and Theophrastus on the emotions / William W. Fortenbaugh -- The problem of the passions in Cynicism / David E. Aune -- The passions in Neopythagorean writings / Johan C. Thom -- "Be angry and sin not" : Philodemus versus the Stoics on natural bites and natural emotions / David Armstrong -- [Pi alpha theta eta] and ['Alpha pi alpha theta epsilon iota alpha] in early Roman empire Stoics / Edgar M. Krentz -- Plutarch on moral progress / Richard A. Wright -- Passion and progress in Ovid's Metamorphoses / S. Georgia Nugent -- The passions in Galen and the novels of Chariton and Xenophon / Loveday C.A. Alexander -- Philo of Alexandria on the rational and irrational emotions / David Winston -- Passions in the Pauline epistles : the current state of research / David Charles Aune -- The logic of action in Paul : how does he differ from the moral philosophers on spiritual and moral progression and regression? / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- Moral progress and divine power in Seneca and Paul / James Ware -- Moral pathology : passions, progress, and protreptic in Clement of Alexandria / L. Michael White.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Contains a collection of essays on the topic of the pathē and prokopē, or the relationship between "the passions" and moral advancement in Greek and Roman thought.