دانلود کتاب Ethical Education in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and Contexts

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Contents
Preface
Editions, abbreviations, and other conventions
Moralia
Parallel Lives
Other Lives
Symbols, orthography, and transliteration of Greek terms
Introduction
1.1 Plutarch and education
1.2 What is significant about Plutarch’s ethical education?
1.3 Scope, structure, and approach of this study
Chapter 1. Character change and character development in Plutarch: the significance of education in a range of settings
1.1 Plutarch and his theory of nature vs nurture
1.2 Character change (metabole) and character development (epanorthosis)
1.3 Metabole in the Parallel Lives
1.4 Epanorthosis and its dual dimension
1.5 Conclusion
Chapter 2. Moral education between parents and children
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Plutarch and childhood: trivial comparisons or opportunities for adult moralism?
2.3 Parenthood in the Moralia and the Parallel Lives
2.3.1 Motherhood
2.3.1.1 Motherhood in the Moralia
2.3.1.2 Motherhood in the Parallel Lives
2.3.2 Fatherhood
2.3.2.1 Fathers as a requirement for the greatness of the son
2.3.2.2 Fatherhood as a stimulant to great actions
2.3.2.3 Fatherhood and power
Chapter 3. Moral training in the classroom
3.1 The complementarity of On reading the poets and On listening to lectures
3.2 Early and adult education: continuation and appropriation
3.3 Proper teachers and wise advisors in the Parallel Lives
3.4 Alcibiades and Dion: Platonic teachers in action
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4. The marital chamber as a school for well-ordered comportment: women’s education
4.1 Female ethical education in the Moralia
4.1.1 Advice on marriage
4.1.2 Consolation to my wife
4.1.3 Virtues of women
4.2 Wives in the Parallel Lives
4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5. Politics as a site of moral education
5.1 Moral education and political engagement
5.2 Pedagogical aspects of political life in the Moralia
5.3 The three stages of political behaviour: the older politician as a moral teacher for younger ones
5.4 Experience as a moralising qualification for statesmanship
5.5 ‘Not only does the office distinguish the man, but also the man the office’ (Praec. ger. reip. 811B): the ethics of contemporary politics and Plutarch’s autobiographical narratives
5.6 Conclusions
Chapter 6. Moralising in the military field: Plutarch and the ethics of generalship
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Aemilius Paulus and Timoleon: the ethical power of the philosopher general
6.3 Sertorius and Eumenes: ethical imposition and the education of barbarians
6.4 Concluding remarks
Chapter 7. Educating over wine: moral pedagogy in Plutarch’s Table Talk
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Programmatic didacticism in the proems to the Books of Table Talk
7.3 Pedagogy in the symposium
7.3.1 Problem 1, Book 1
7.3.2 Problem 2, Book 1
7.4 ‘Predominance’ in the discussions: sophistic or ethical?
7.5 Applied ‘predominance’: from tactfulness to aggressiveness
7.6 ‘Men practise philosophy when they are silent’ (Quaest. conv. 613F): silence and its moralising dynamics
7.7 Conclusion
Conclusion
Reading ethical education in Plutarch
Bibliography
Index of names and topics
Index of Plutarchan passages
Index of passages in other authors