
Eternal Questions
Some Notes from Ancient Greece
Sylvia Moody(Author)
Lutterworth Press
Published on 27. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-7188-3078-6 (ISBN)
Description
Life is full of questions. Some are trivial and everyday (where did I put my keys?). Some concern important life decisions (shall I emigrate to Australia?). And again some are yet more profound (does life have a purpose?). Questions of this third type relate not so much to our individual lives, but to Life itself. They are, you might say, eternal questions. Different periods of history, different civilisations, all offer us a range of answers to these eternal questions. In this book we shall consider some of the answers given two-and-a-half thousand years ago by our distant cultural ancestors, the ancient Greeks. Ancient they may be but these Greeks asked the same eternal questions we ask - and came up with interesting answers. They felt the passionate emotions we feel - and dealt with them in creative ways. They felt the same spiritual longings as we do - and found diverse ways of satisfying them. They still influence many aspects of our lives: language, art, architecture, literature, drama, philosophy, psychology, morals, medicine, history...They can still inspire us and inform us and sometimes exasperate us. They are always close to us.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-7188-3078-6 (9780718830786)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sylvia Moody is a Classicist and Psychologist with a life-long passion for Greece and the ancient world. Many years spent in Greece enabled her to remain close to Greek language and culture, and to retain a keen sense of the magic and enchantment of the world of the Ancient Greeks.
Content
Introduction. Who were the Ancient Greeks? 1. What is Life? 2. Is there a God? 3. What Can We Know? 4. What Can We Imagine? 5. How Should we Behave? 6. What Makes a Good State? 7. Is Life a Drama? 8. What Happens After Death? 9. What's a Word? Appendix