The moral power of the word: Ethical literature in Antiquity-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The moral power of the word: Ethical literature in Antiquity

Published:2020-12-01 Issue:3-4 Volume:10 Page:107-115
ISSN:2453-7829
Container-title:Ethics & Bioethics
language:en
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Author:

Paczkowski Przemysław¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Rzeszow ( Poland )

Abstract

Abstract According to an old legend, during the Messenian Wars in Laconia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the Athenians sent the poet Tyrtaeus to the Spartans who were close to being defeated; he aroused in them the fighting spirit and renewed Spartan virtues. Philosophers in antiquity believed in the psychagogical power of the word, and this belief provided the foundation for ancient ethical literature, whose main purpose was to call for a spiritual transformation and to convert to philosophy. In this paper, I would like to demonstrate what tradition philosophy referred to in these efforts; what concept of man supported that belief; finally, what literary genres were used by ancient philosophers in ethics.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Health Policy,Philosophy,Education

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/ebce-2020-0012

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