Œuvres morales (III)
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Attribuée (paternité débattue)
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~280 000 mots · 1 348 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAPlutarque. (n.d.). Œuvres morales (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies
- MLAPlutarque. "Œuvres morales (III)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
- ChicagoPlutarque. Œuvres morales (III). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
De quoi il s'agit
Les essais de Plutarque : non les Vies mais ce qu'on appelle les Moralia — des dizaines de textes brefs sur la colère, le bavardage, la superstition, l'éducation des enfants, l'oracle de Delphes et le visage qu'on voit dans la lune.
Contexte et histoire
Il ne faut pas confondre les deux : le catalogue contient les Vies parallèles et contient ceci, la moitié la moins lue de Plutarque bien qu'elle soit la plus variée. On y voit qu'il était prêtre à Delphes et que tout l'intéressait ; c'est aussi de là que viennent bien des passages qu'on cite de lui sur l'amitié et le calme. Certains des traités attribués sont d'authenticité discutée, chose fréquente dans un recueil aussi vaste.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…