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The Greek View of Life

by G. Lowes Dickinson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2List of Translations Used
  3. 3Chapter I — The Greek View of Religion
  4. 4Chapter II — The Greek View of the State
  5. 5Chapter III — The Greek View of the Individual
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Greek View of Art
  7. 7Chapter V — Conclusion — Chapter I — The Greek View of Religion
  8. 8Section 2 — Greek Religion an Interpretation of Nature
  9. 9Section 3 — Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions
  10. 10Section 4 — Greek Religion the Foundation of Society
  11. 11Section 5 — Religious Festivals
  12. 12Section 6 — The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods
  13. 13Section 7 — Divination, Omens, Oracles
  14. 14Section 8 — Sacrifice and Atonement
  15. 15Section 9 — Guilt and Punishment
  16. 16Section 10 — Mysticism
  17. 17Section 11 — The Greek View of Death and a Future Life
  18. 18Section 12 — Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece
  19. 19Section 13 — Ethical Criticism
  20. 20Section 14 — Transition to Monotheism
  21. 21Section 15 — Metaphysical Criticism
  22. 22Section 16 — Metaphysical Reconstruction — Plato
  23. 23Section 17 — Summary
  24. 24Chapter II — The Greek View of the State
  25. 25Section 2 — The Relation of the State to the Citizen
  26. 26Section 3 — The Greek View of Law
  27. 27Section 4 — Artisans and Slaves
  28. 28Section 5 — The Greek State Primarily Military, Not Industrial
  29. 29Section 6 — Forms of Government in the Greek State
  30. 30Section 7 — Faction and Anarchy
  31. 31Section 8 — Property and the Communistic Ideal
  32. 32Section 9 — Sparta
  33. 33Section 10 — Athens
  34. 34Section 11 — Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State
  35. 35Section 12 — Summary
  36. 36Chapter III — The Greek View of the Individual
  37. 37Section 2 — Appreciation of External Goods
  38. 38Section 3 — Appreciation of Physical Qualities
  39. 39Section 4 — Greek Athletics
  40. 40Section 5 — Greek Ethics — Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethi…
  41. 41Section 6 — The Greek View of Pleasure
  42. 42Section 7 — Illustrations — Ischomachus; Socrates
  43. 43Section 8 — The Greek View of Woman
  44. 44Section 9 — Protests Against the Common View of Woman
  45. 45Section 10 — Friendship
  46. 46Section 11 — Summary
  47. 47Chapter IV — The Greek View of Art
  48. 48Section 2 — Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View
  49. 49Section 3 — Sculpture and Painting
  50. 50Section 4 — Music and the Dance
  51. 51Section 5 — Poetry
  52. 52Section 6 — Tragedy
  53. 53Section 7 — Comedy
  54. 54Section 8 — Summary
  55. 55Chapter V — Conclusion

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