Concept
Moralia
Overview
The Moralia (Latin for "Morals", "Customs" or "Mores"; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικά, Ethiká) is a set of essays ascribed to the 1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but they also include timeless observations. Many generations of Europeans have read or imitated them, including Michel de Montaigne, Renaissance Humanists and Enlightenment philosophers.
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A complete catalogue of Plutarch’s Moralia is given in the appendix. The list is borrowed from the edition of Bernardakis and the question of authenticity is not taken into account. NOTE:—To translate Plutarch is a very different task from that of translating Seneca.
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
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Accordingly moral character is well called by the Greeks [Greek: ethos], for it is, to speak generally, a quality of the unreasoning element in man, and is called [Greek: ethos] because the unreasoning element moulded by reason receives this quality and difference by habit, which is called [Greek: ethos].[226] Not that reason wishes to expel passion altogether (that is neither possible, nor advisable), but only to…
Plutarch, Plutarch's Morals
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The beauty of a systematical arrangement of different observations, connected by a few common principles, was first seen in the rude essays of those ancient times towards a system of natural philosophy. Something of the same kind was afterwards attempted in morals. The maxims of common life were arranged in some methodical order, and connected together by a few common principles, in the same manner as they had…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Philosophers who discussed Moralia
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Erasmus
- Aristophanes
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Latin
- Grief
- Plutarch
- Renaissance
- Socrates
- Reincarnation
- Thales of Miletus
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aristotle
- Venice
- Sparta
- Michel de Montaigne
- Pseudo-Plutarch
- Basel
- Ancient Rome
- Solon
- Seven Sages of Greece
- Loeb Classical Library
- Ancient Greece
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaxagoras.