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From The Many To The One: A Study Of Personality And Views Of Human Nature In The Context Of Ancient Greek Society, Values And Beliefs
Book by Adkins, A. W. H
- GenresPhilosophy
312 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1970
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October 16, 2012
Adkins honors Dodds and Snell by carrying their effort to understand ancient Greek ideas about personality a step further. He starts by refusing to translate key terms, insisting that they can only be understood by their usage. Then he discusses Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the stoics and the Epicurians. This thesis seems to be that ideas about the self are related to the society in which they are conceived. In Homer he finds no unitary personality but only little persons. He relates this to homeric society and culture. He goes on to do the same with Plato etc. For me it was a wonderful introductory essay on several important philosophies. He becomes a bit repetitive as he hammers home his ideas, but it was a pleasure to have him as a guide through so much interesting territory.
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