The Greek View of Life
by G. Lowes Dickinson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes), 1862-1932
- Credits
- Produced by Tonya Allen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DF: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Greece
- Subject
- Greece -- Civilization
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 6200
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6200
- Release Date
- July 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE GREEK VIEW OF LIFE
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.LIST OF TRANSLATIONS USED
- 4.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I.—THE GREEK VIEW OF RELIGION — CHAPTER II.—THE GREEK VIEW OF THE STATE — CHAPTER III.—THE GREEK VIEW OF THE INDIVIDUAL — CHAPTER IV.—THE GREEK VIEW OF ART — CHAPTER V.—CONCLUSION
- 5.CHAPTER I — Section 1. Introductory. — Section 2. Greek Religion an Interpretation of Nature. — Section 3. Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions. — Section 4. Greek Religion the Foundation of Society. — Section 5. Religious Festivals. — Section 6. The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods. — Section 7. Divination, Omens, Oracles. — Section 8. Sacrifice and Atonement. — Section 9. Guilt and Punishment. — Section 10. Mysticism. — Section 11. The Greek View of Death and a Future Life. — Section 12. Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece. — Section 13. Ethical Criticism. — Section 14. Transition to Monotheism. — Section 15. Metaphysical Criticism. — Section 16. Metaphysical Reconstruction—Plato. — Section 17. Summary.
- 6.CHAPTER II — Section 1. The Greek State a "City." — Section 2. The Relation of the State to the Citizen. — Section 3. The Greek View of Law. — Section 4. Artisans and Slaves. — Section 5. The Greek State Primarily Military, not Industrial. — Section 6. Forms of Government in the Greek State. — Section 7. Faction and Anarchy. — Section 8. Property and the Communistic Ideal. — Section 9. Sparta. — Section 10. Athens. — Section 11. Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State. — Section 12. Summary.
- 7.CHAPTER III — Section 1. The Greek View of Manual Labour and Trade. — Section 2. Appreciation of External Goods. — Section 3. Appreciation of Physical Qualities. — Section 4. Greek Athletics. — Section 5. Greek Ethics—Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View. — Section 6. The Greek View of Pleasure. — Section 7. Illustrations—Ischomachus; Socrates. — Section 8. The Greek View of Woman. — Section 9. Protests against the Common View of Woman. — Section 10. Friendship. — Section 11. Summary.
- 8.CHAPTER IV — Section 1. Greek Art an Expression of National Life. — Section 2. Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View. — Section 3. Sculpture and Painting. — Section 4. Music and the Dance. — Section 5. Poetry. — Section 6. Tragedy. — Section 7. Comedy. — Section 8. Summary.
- 9.CHAPTER V
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