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The Advent of Pluralism

Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles

by Lauren J. Apfel

  • Hardback
  • 400 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

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For students and scholars of ancient philosophy and history

Explores conflict of values in Sophocles' tragedies

You will gain insight into pluralism's historical roots

The Advent of Pluralism examines diversity in Classical Greece.

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The Advent of Pluralism explores how the philosophical position of pluralism - the idea, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, that values and moral codes can and will come into conflict with one another - has clear and important roots in the Classical Greek world. The book falls into three parts each of which focuses on one author and the ways in which pluralism manifests itself in his particular genre. Part I is concerned with the sophist Protagoras, who was one of the world's first philosophers and arguably the first exponent of the idea that there can be more than one perspective on truth. Part II looks at pluralism in historical writing, contrasting the methodological and moral styles of the two best-known Greek historians, Thucydides and Herodotus. Part III, on conflict in the tragedies of Sophocles, uses pluralism as a context in which to make sense of the horrible choices the playwright so powerfully dramatizes. Overall, Lauren Apfel's study identifies a pluralist temper of thought in the age of Sophocles and, in doing so, offers an enriched understanding of this crucial intellectual period.
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  • Author

    Lauren J. Apfel

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2011

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    400

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199600625

  • ISBN-10

    0199600627

  • Eden Code

    4564124

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