Moralia
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it is not a documented composition date unless a source gives a firmer anchor.","GeoCards":[{"Label":"Region","Key":"Region:1"},{"Label":"Terra Avita","Key":"TerraAvita:2"},{"Label":"Terra Avita Region","Key":"TerraAvitaRegion:9"},{"Label":"Modern Country","Key":"Country:TUR:2"}],"OriginalTitle":"Τὰ Ἠθικά","Language":"Greek","DisciplineCards":[{"Label":"Primary Discipline","Key":"Discipline:ethics"},{"Label":"Secondary Discipline","Key":"Discipline:philosophy-of-religion"}],"Tradition":"Cappadocian Christian Platonism, Nicene theology, ascetic ethics, social preaching, and late antique Greek patristic thought","FullText":{"Title":"Full Text","Copy":"Full text from Wikisource: Moralia .","Url":"","Label":"","Kicker":"","Cards":[]},"CoreThesis":["The Moralia organizes moral and ascetic teaching into rules of life grounded in Scripture and communal discipline."],"Classification":{"AlternateTitles":"Ethics; Morals","KeyConcepts":"Moralia; Basil the Great; Caesarea; Nicene theology; Trinity; 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Goodwin (page does not exist)\"\u003eWilliam W. Goodwin\u003c/a\u003e \u003cspan\u003e(\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plutarch-plutarchs-morals-5-vols\"\u003eexternal scan\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"/w/index.php?title=Plutarch%27s_Miscellanies_and_Essays\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Plutarch\u0026#39;s Miscellanies and Essays (page does not exist)\"\u003ePlutarch\u0027s Miscellanies and Essays\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/i\u003e (1909), a revision of Goodwin\u0027s edition by \u003ca href=\"/wiki/Author:A.H._Clough\" title=\"Author:A.H. Clough\"\u003eA.H. Clough\u003c/a\u003e \u003clink rel=\"mw-deduplicated-inline-style\" href=\"mw-data:TemplateStyles:r15431472\" /\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(external scans (multiple parts): \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/plutarchsessaysm01plutiala\"\u003e1\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/plutarchsessaysm02plutiala\"\u003e2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/plutarchsessaysm03plutiala\"\u003e3\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/plutarchsessaysm04plutiala\"\u003e4\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/plutarchsessaysm05plutiala\"\u003e5\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Moralia_(Loeb)\" title=\"Plutarch\u0026#39;s Moralia (Loeb)\"\u003ePlutarch\u0027s Moralia\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/i\u003e (1914 \u0026amp; seq.), translated by various authors for the Loeb Classical Library \u003clink rel=\"mw-deduplicated-inline-style\" href=\"mw-data:TemplateStyles:r15431472\" /\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/home.html\"\u003eexternal scan\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbridgments\u003c/h3\u003e \u003ca href=\"/w/index.php?title=Moralia\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;section=2\" title=\"Edit section: Abridgments\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eedit\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/Plutarch%27s_Moralia_(Holland)\" title=\"Plutarch\u0026#39;s Moralia (Holland)\"\u003ePlutarch\u0027s Moralia: Twenty Essays\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/i\u003e (1603, rev. 1911), translated \u0026amp; abridged by \u003ca href=\"/wiki/Author:Philemon_Holland\" title=\"Author:Philemon Holland\"\u003ePhilemon Holland\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"/w/index.php?title=Plutarch%27s_Morals_(Shilleto)\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Plutarch\u0026#39;s Morals (Shilleto) (page does not exist)\"\u003ePlutarch\u0027s Morals: Ethical Essays\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/i\u003e (1898), translated \u0026amp; abridged by \u003ca href=\"/wiki/Author:Arthur_Richard_Shilleto\" title=\"Author:Arthur Richard Shilleto\"\u003eArthur Richard Shilleto\u003c/a\u003e \u003clink rel=\"mw-deduplicated-inline-style\" href=\"mw-data:TemplateStyles:r15431472\" /\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003cspan\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23639\"\u003eexternal scan\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e)\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eExternal links\u003c/h2\u003e \u003ca href=\"/w/index.php?title=Moralia\u0026amp;action=edit\u0026amp;section=3\" title=\"Edit section: External links\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eedit\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.attalus.org/info/moralia.html\"\u003eA variety of translations\u003c/a\u003e at Attalus\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e\r\n\n \u003c/article\u003e"},{"Kind":"TextSection","Title":"Core Thesis","Paragraphs":["The Moralia organizes moral and ascetic teaching into rules of life grounded in Scripture and communal discipline."]},{"Kind":"FieldSection","Title":"Classification","Fields":[{"Label":"Alternate Titles","Value":"Ethics; 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