Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome

In Fritz Allhoff & Dan O'Brien (eds.), Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 26–37 (2010)
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cultivating the soul ‐ the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome   life in the modern world, attaching moral meaning to professional practices   agriculture and farming life ‐ topics in ancient Greece and Roman literature   farms and gardens ‐ evoking rich and complex set of cultural meanings about human nature   tending gardens, pleasing to gods, pleasing to the state ‐ being the healthiest and pleasantest of occupations   farmer, the foundation of civic life ‐ and farming, most gratifying to the gods   Works and Days and the Oeconomicus ‐ Hesiod and Xenophon's treatments of rural life   Xenophon, addressing a different world ‐ to that of Hesiod's rural farmer   Oeconomicus, Xenophon developing the theme of the Gardener/King ‐ with respect to Cyrus the Great and the pretender Cyrus the Younger   Xenophon's ideas ‐ concerning cultivation of the soil as part of estate management

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original Ray, Meghan T. (2010-09-24) "Cultivating the Soul". In Allhoff, Fritz, O'Brien, Dan, Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, pp. 26–37: Wiley‐Blackwell (2010-09-24)

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