Moralia (III)
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Atribuida (autoría debatida)
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~280.000 palabras · 1348 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAPlutarco. (n.d.). Moralia (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies
- MLAPlutarco. "Moralia (III)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
- ChicagoPlutarco. Moralia (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
De qué trata
Los ensayos de Plutarco: no las Vidas sino lo que se conoce como Moralia, decenas de textos breves sobre la ira, la charlatanería, la superstición, la educación de los hijos, el oráculo de Delfos y la cara que se ve en la luna.
Contexto e historia
Conviene no confundir las dos cosas: en el catálogo están las Vidas paralelas y está esto, y es la mitad menos leída de Plutarco pese a ser la más variada. Aquí se ve que era sacerdote en Delfos y que le interesaba todo; también es de aquí que salen muchos de sus fragmentos citados sobre la amistad y la calma. Algunos de los tratados atribuidos son de autenticidad discutida, cosa corriente en una colección tan grande.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition to his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing out one word here and another there, or by falling foul upon particular passages without the books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned. Now as we were leaving the school to take a walk (as our manner is) in the gymnasium, Zeuxippus began to us: In my opinion, said he, the debate was managed on our side with more softness and less freedom than was fitting. I am sure, Heraclides went away disgusted with us, for handling Epicurus and Aletrodorus more roughly than they deserved. Yet you may remember, replied Theon, how you told them that Colotes himself, compared with the rhetoric of those two gentlemen, would appear the complaisantest man alive; for when they have raked together the lewdest terms of ignominy the tongue of man ever used, as buffooneries, trollings, arrogancies, whorings, assassinations, whining counterfeits, black-guards, and blockheads, they faintly throw them in the faces of Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Protagoras, Theophrastus, Heraclides, Hipparchus, and which not, even of the best and most celebrated authorities.…