From the Many to the One: A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values and Beliefs
A.W.H. Adkins
This study pursues further certain themes developed in the author's Merit and Responsibility: A Study in Greek Values (1960), except that the investigation of these values is extended into Hellenistic times. Its thesis may be simply stated. Greek culture was a "shame-culture," or "results-culture," i.e. one "in which the evaluation of actions
is not related to intentions" but to results (p. 238). Now "where the result is all-important, and intentions unimportant, the action is judged in terms of what is exterior to the personality, and the development of a stable core of personality is not encouraged" (ibid.). Indeed, it is actively discouraged: "the competitive nature of Greek society, with its emphasis on results, not intentions, was responsible for a low degree of personality structure in Greece, which resulted in the individual's feeling his emotions and passions as something 'over against' his reason, over which his reason had little or no control" (p. 259). The stresses generated by this inner fragmentation, coupled with the external threats posed by the disorders of the Hellenistic period, led to a large-scale failure of nerve to which Stoicism and Epicureanism offered themselves as answers.
is not related to intentions" but to results (p. 238). Now "where the result is all-important, and intentions unimportant, the action is judged in terms of what is exterior to the personality, and the development of a stable core of personality is not encouraged" (ibid.). Indeed, it is actively discouraged: "the competitive nature of Greek society, with its emphasis on results, not intentions, was responsible for a low degree of personality structure in Greece, which resulted in the individual's feeling his emotions and passions as something 'over against' his reason, over which his reason had little or no control" (p. 259). The stresses generated by this inner fragmentation, coupled with the external threats posed by the disorders of the Hellenistic period, led to a large-scale failure of nerve to which Stoicism and Epicureanism offered themselves as answers.
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Năm:
1970
Nhà xuát bản:
London: Constable & Company
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
312
ISBN 10:
0094560803
Loạt:
Ideas Of Human Nature Series
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PDF, 14.45 MB
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english, 1970
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