Personality In Greek Epic, Tragedy, And Philosophy Paperback Reprint Edition

Christopher Gill

This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer, Greek tragedy, and philosophy. The focus is on norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. The key thesis is that, to understand Greek thinking of this type, we need to counteract the subjective and individualistic aspects of our own thinking about the self. The book defines an 'objective-participant' conception of personality, symbolized by the idea of the person as an interlocutor in a series of types of psychological and ethical dialogue. The book is both an original contribution to the histor

0198152329

9780198152323

English

Clarendon Press

13-Feb-13

524

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