Nomos, kosmos & dike in Plutarch

• Superior document: Humanitas Supplementum
• Author: Delfim F. Leão; José Ribeiro; Carlos A. Martins de Jesus
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Humanitas supplementum.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (242 p.)

Law and justice in Plutarch are not only philosophical or technical concepts, but also literary expedients. Sometimes the political behaviour of Plutarch's heroes moves on the border between law and convenience. It is in these situations that Plutarch uses νόμος as a means to underline the virtues or the despotical nature of his characters. In this paper we try to clarify the nature of legislative activity by men such as Lycurgus, Numa, or Solon as well as the circumstances in which politicians have to choose between τὸ δίκαιον and τὸ συμφέρον or between ὁ νόμος and other unavowable interests, according to Plutarch's biographical design of these figures.

Table of Contents

ΝΟΜΟΣ como criterio de valoración ética en las Vidas Paralelas -- Pericles, ¿un modelo de ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ? -- O sentido de dike nas biografias de Aristides e Catão Censor -- Plutarco y su interpretación de leyes griegas concernientes a la familia y propiedad Political reforms in the Lives of Lycurgus and Numa: divine revelation or political lie? -- ΚΟΣΜΟΣ and its derivatives in the Plutarchan works on love -- Nomos e Kosmos na caracterização do António e da Cleópatra de Plutarco -- The Daimon in Timarchus' cosmic vision (Plu. De Gen. Socr. 22, 590B-592E) Un nomos atopos? Gli Efori e i baffi degli Spartani: nota esege tica a De sera num. vind. 4.550B -- La nozione di Giustizia nel suo sviluppo storico: la Giustizia come valore primario del pensiero etico e politico di Plutarco -- La giustizia del saggio: una polemica di Plutarco contro gli Stoici -- Dike y otras deidades justicieras en la obra de Plutarco La giustizia nel Grillo e la conclusione del dialogo -- Animali parlanti e giustizia in Plutarco ed Omero -- Eunomia in heaven and on earth: Plutarch's nomos between rhetoric and science -- Ordre et désordre dans la pensée de Plutarque: réseaux lexicaux et problématiques philosophiques autour de ΔΙΚΗ, ΚΟΣΜΟΣ, ΝΟΜΟΣ -- Jueces, premios y castigos en el Más Allá de Plutarco.