The Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate Reflections on the Liberal Arts /

• Main Author: Rosenthal-Pubul, Alexander S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient.; Intellectual life-History.; Philosophy.; Europe-History.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Classical Philosophy.; Intellectual Studies.; History of Philosophy.; European History.; Political Philosophy.

In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: "What is the good life?", while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the "noble" (what is good in its...