Author: TheophrastusPublisher:
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Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Moral Characters of Theophrastus
Author: TheophrastusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Moral Characters of Theophrastus, in the Graeca Majora, Literally Translated Into English
Author: TheophrastusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Character sketches
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Theophrastus' Characters
Author: Sonia PertsinidisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work, Theophrastus, was Aristotle's colleague, his immediate successor and head of his philosophical school for thirty-five years. Pertsinidis' lively, original and scholarly monograph introduces Theophrastus as a Greek philosopher. It also outlines the remarkable influence of the Characters as a literary work and provides a detailed discussion of the work's purpose and its connection with comedy, ethics and rhetoric.
The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère
Author: Jean de La BruyèrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
These writings provide a unique view of the height of 17th-century French culture.
The Characters of Theophrastus
Author: TheophrastusPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Characters of Theophrastus is a book by Theophrastus concerning different types of men. Contents: The Flatterer, The Coward, The Tactless Man, The Mean Man, The Stupid Man, The Superstitious Man, The Suspicious Man and many more.
The Moral Characters of Theophrastus
Author: TheophrastusCharacter
Author: Marjorie GarberPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374709378
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
What is “character”? Since at least Aristotle’s time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, “character” derives from a word for engraving or stamping, yet over time, it has come to mean a moral idea, a type, a literary persona, and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self-help books. In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession, Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today, omnipresent in discussions of politics, ethics, gender, morality, and the psyche. References to character flaws, character issues, and character assassination and allegations of “bad” and “good” character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does “character” in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be “formed” or taught in schools, in scouting, in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill, from Shakespeare to Darwin, from Theophrastus to Freud, from nineteenth-century phrenology to twenty-first-century brain scans, the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us. Today, with the meaning and the value of this term in question, no issue is more important, and no topic more vital, surprising, and fascinating. With her distinctive verve, humor, and vast erudition, Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations, confusions, and heritages, from ancient Greece to the present day.
The Moral Characters of Theophrastus
Author: TheophrastusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The first Piece that the Reader will meet within, A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings: It treats of the Origin of those Writings: It points out the general Laws to be observ'd in such Compositions, and it contains some Reflexions on Theophrastus and Mr. de la Bruyere's Performances in this Way"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Author: George Eliot
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