Social justice and the legitimacy of slavery: the role of philosophical asceticism from ancient Judaism to late antiquity

"Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, "natural" (Aristotle), or at best something morally "indifferent" (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or e...

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Main Author: Ramelli, Ilaria 1973- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press [2016]
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Reviews:Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery (2017) (Harrill, J. Albert, 1963 -)
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Rome of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity, Ilaria L. E. Ramelli, Oxford University Press, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-19-877727-4), xvi + 304 pp., hb £70 (2017) (Tatterfield, Thomas D.)
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:The Oxford early Christian studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Late Antiquity / Slavery / Legitimacy / Philosophy / Judaism / Church / Christian author
B Slavery / Early Judaism / Church / Philosophy
Further subjects:B Slavery and Judaism History To 1500
B Slavery and the church History To 1500
B Slavery and the church
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