Stoics on stuff stoic consolations on the destruction of cultural heritage in war
The ancient Stoics force us to rethink our attachment to cultural objects and our valuation of them as a central part of flourishing. Pushing the Socratic view to an extreme, they hold that virtue alone is sufficient for happiness. External goods, including cultural artifacts and edifices, the histo...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Heritage and war / edited by William Bülow, Helen Frowe, Derek Matravers, and Joshua Lewis Thomas |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The ancient Stoics force us to rethink our attachment to cultural objects and our valuation of them as a central part of flourishing. Pushing the Socratic view to an extreme, they hold that virtue alone is sufficient for happiness. External goods, including cultural artifacts and edifices, the historic and ritual monuments of a culture or religion, are classified as "indifferents," to be preferred rather than dispreferred, but themselves not the kinds of things that can make or break our happiness. The views strikes many of us as inhumane and an expression of the overly austere side of Stoicism. Still, the Stoic view gives us space to wonder if we don’t at times fetishize material stuff, including even ritual sites invested with history and the long-standing practices of a culture. |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-19-286264-8 |