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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2012 The rhetorical skill of the biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea in his Parallel Lives is made manifest by certain linguistic usages with which he characterizes his protagonists.
David Hernández de la Fuente +1 more
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Plutarch and the Persians [PDF]
, 2017 This paper deals with the image of Persia and the Persians in the works of Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45–c. 120 AD), in both his Moralia and Lives. It explores this theme under several headings: Plutarch as: (a) a Greek Imperial author, (b) an author ...
Almagor, Eran
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Aitia, 2013 At the end of his Adversus Colotem, Plutarch attacks the Epicurean view of politics (1124D-1127E). His starting point is a verbatim quotation from Colotes.
Geert Roskam
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Sergei Bulgakov's Sophiology Historical Parallels and Ecumenical Dialogues
Jurnal Multidisiplin IbrahimySergei Bulgakov's sophiology offers a distinctive contribution to Russian religious philosophy by incorporating Divine Wisdom (Sophia) into Trinitarian theology, thereby bridging materialism and idealism while addressing the existential and theological ...
Michael Yurievich Kuznetsov
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Plutarch’s Hesiod: Tradition and Identity Formation in a Greco-Roman Context [PDF]
Athens Journal of HistoryIn Plutarch’s times Hesiod was still seen as the second founding father of Panhellenic culture and identity. For various reasons Plutarch held Hesiod in high esteem and played an important role in keeping the poet under the spotlight of paideia.
Peter Malisse
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Iamblichus and Plutarch on Inspiration
, 2021 This article argues that the works of Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45–120 AD) exerted a significant influence on Iamblichus of Chalcis (c. 245–325 AD), with specific reference to his theory of prophetic inspiration. This analysis is expressly concerned with
Simonetti, Elsa Giovanna
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Plutarcho Aleksandras: interpretacijos problemos. Plutarch‘s Alexander: Problems of Interpretation [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2010 Alexander‘ s character and his activities occupy a special position in the works of Plutarch. Alexander’s Life is the second largest life in the corpus, there are two elaborated speeches on him included into Moralia, and he is often mentioned in the ...
Nijolė Juchnevičienė
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A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology. [PDF]
Hist Psychiatry, 2023 Metzger N.
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The Ethics of Ancient Lactation and the Cult of the Perfect Breastfeeding Mother. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2023 Groff E, Steger F.
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