Escrits d'ètica pràctica
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Atribuïda (autoria debatuda)
- Estat del text:
- Amb errors d'escaneig (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà) · 6 passatges il·legibles, exclosos de les respostes
- Extensió:
- ~160.000 paraules · 782 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlutarc. (n.d.). Plutarch's Morals [Escrits d'ètica pràctica]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-morals
- MLAPlutarc. Plutarch's Morals [Escrits d'ètica pràctica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-morals.
- ChicagoPlutarc. Plutarch's Morals [Escrits d'ètica pràctica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-morals.
Referència de l’edició reproduïda. SigPhi és la reproducció digital, no l’editor. S’hi inclouen l’any, l’editorial i el traductor quan consten; «n.d.» indica que no consta l’any. La responsabilitat d’un pròleg o d’una nota es determina segons el passatge citat.
De què tracta
Els «Moralia»: la part no biografica de l'obra de Plutarc, seixanta i escaig de tractats i dialegs sobre gairebé tot, des de com llegir els poetes fins a per que van callar els oracles.
Context i història
Es el contrapes de les «Vides paral·leles», i molta gent no sap que existeix. Plutarc era sacerdot a Delfos i platonic, i escriu com un home cultivat que conversa: hi ha consells sobre l'amistat i sobre com distingir un adulador d'un amic, un tractat sobre la ira, un altre sobre la tranquil·litat de l'anima, pagines sobre l'educacio dels fills, sobre si els animals raonen, i les «Questions de taula», que son literalment converses de sobretaula. Montaigne el va llegir tota la vida i li deu bona part del to dels «Assaigs». Convé saber que el conjunt es divers i desigual, i que alguns dels tractats que hi circulen no son seus.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
freeborn. For slaves try to shirk and avoid their work, partly because of the pain of blows, partly on account of being reviled. But praise or censure are far more useful than abuse to the freeborn, praise pricking them on to virtue, censure deterring them from vice. But one must censure and praise alternately: when they are too saucy we must censure them and make them ashamed of themselves, and again encourage them by praise, and imitate those nurses who, when their children sob, give them the breast to comfort them. But we must not puff them up and make them conceited with excessive praise, for that will make them vain and give themselves airs. § XIII. And I have ere now seen some fathers, whose excessive love for their children has turned into hatred. My meaning I will endeavour to make clearer by illustration. While they are in too great a hurry to make their sons take the lead in everything, they lay too much work upon them, so that they faint under their tasks, and, being overburdened, are disinclined for learning. For just as plants grow with moderate rain, but are done for by too much rain, so the mind enlarges by a proper amount of work, but by too much is unhinged. We must therefore give our boys remission from continuous labour, bearing in mind that all our life is divided into labour and rest; thus we find not only wakefulness but sleep, not only war but peace, not only foul weather but fine also, not only working days but also festivals. And, to speak concisely, rest is the sauce of labour. And we can see this not only in the case of animate, but even inanimate things, for we make bows and lyres slack that we may be able to stretch them. And generally the body is preserved by repletion and evacuation, and the soul by rest and work. We ought also to censure some fathers who, after entrusting their sons to tutors and preceptors, neither see nor hear how the teaching is done. This is a great mistake.…