Gilbert Murray
Humanismo
Murray é frequentemente identificado como um humanista, tipicamente com alguma qualificação ('clássico', 'erudito', 'engajado', 'liberal'). Ele ingressou na Rationalist Press Association e, em 1952, participou do Congresso Humanista Mundial. Ele escreveu e divulgou extensivamente sobre religião (grego, estoico e cristão); e escreveu vários livros lidando com sua versão do humanismo. Ele foi presidente da British Ethical Union (agora Humanists UK) de 1929-1930.
Uma frase de suas palestras de 1910, Quatro Estágios da Religião Grega, gozou de destaque público: a "falta de coragem" do mundo helenístico, da qual uma virada para o irracionalismo era sintomática.
Murray foi batizado como católico romano; seu pai era católico, sua mãe protestante. Sua filha Rosalind (mais tarde Rosalind Toynbee), uma convertida católica, atacou seu secularismo em seu livro de apologética, The Good Pagan's Failure (1939). Cerca de um mês antes de morrer, quando estava acamado, sua filha Rosalind ligou para o padre católico local para vê-lo. Rosalind posteriormente afirmou que Murray se reconciliou com a Igreja Católica; outros membros da família, no entanto, contestaram sua versão dos eventos.
Trabalhos
Tradução para o inglês
- Andromache (1900)
- Uma edição de texto de Eurípides, Fabulae, em três volumes (OCT. 1901, 1904, 1910)
- Euripides: Hippolytus; The Bacchae (1902)
- Aristophanes: The Frogs (1902)
- Euripides, The Trojan Women (1905)
- Electra of Euripides (1905)
- Euripides Medea (1910)
- Iphigenia in Tauris (1911)
- Oedipus King of Thebes (1911)
- The Story of Nefrekepta: From a Demotic Papyrus (1911)
- Rhesus of Euripides (1913)
- Andromache (1913)
- Alcestis (1915)
- Agamemnon (1920)
- Choephoroe (1923)
- Eumenides de Aeschylus (1926)
- The Oresteia (1928)
- The Suppliant Women (1930)
- Seven Against Thebes (1935)
- Uma edição de texto de Aeschylus, Septem quae supersunt Tragoediae (OCT. 1937. 1955)
- The Persians (1939)
- Antigone (1941)
- The Rape of the Locks: The Perikeiromene of Menander (1942)
- Fifteen Greek Plays (1943) com outros
- The Arbitration: the Epitrepontes of Menander (1945)
- Oedipus at Colonus (1948)
- The Birds (1950)
- Euripides, Ion (1954)
- Collected Plays of Euripides (1954)
- The Knights (1956)
Estudos clássico
- Festschrift
- Poesia grega e vida, ensaios apresentados a Gilbert Murray em seu septuagésimo aniversário, 2 de janeiro de 1936 (1936)
Outros trabalhos
- Gobi or Shamo romance (1889)
- Carlyon Sahib, um drama em quatro atos (1899)
- Liberalism and the Empire: Three Essays com Francis W. Hirst e John L. Hammond (1900)
- Thoughts on the War panfleto (1914)
- The Foreign Policy of Sir Edward Grey, 1906–1915 texto online (1915)
- Ethical Problems of the War (1915)
- Herd Instinct and the War Uma palestra reproduzida em The International Crisis in Its Ethical and Psychological Aspects (1915)
- How can war ever be right? Oxford Pamphlets No 18/Ist Krieg je berechtigt?/La guerre. Peut-elle jamais se justifier? (1915)
- Impressions of Scandinavia in War Time (1916) panfleto, reimpressão do Westminster Gazette
- The United States and the War panfleto (1916)
- The Way Forward: Three Articles on Liberal Policy panfleto (1917)
- Great Britain's Sea Policy – A Reply to an American Critic reimpressão da The Atlantic Monthly (1917)
- Faith, War and Policy (1917)
- The League of Nations and the Democratic Idea (1918)
- Religio Grammatici: The Religion Of A Man Of Letters Discurso presidencial à Associação Clássica, 8 de janeiro de 1918 (1918)
- Prefácio para My Mission to London 1912–1914 de Prince Lichnowsky, o embaixador alemão em Londres que avisou Berlim que a Grã-Bretanha lutaria em agosto de 1914. Cassel & Co. London. (1918)
- Satanism and the World Order Adamson Lecture (1920)
- The League of Nations and its Guarantees panfleto da Liga das Nações de (1920)
- Essays and Addresses (1921)
- The Problem of Foreign Policy: A Consideration of Present Dangers and the Best Methods for Meeting Them (1921)
- Tradition and Progress (1922)
- The Ordeal of This Generation: The War, the League and the Future Palestras Halley Stewart 1928 (1930)
- Augustan Book of Poetry volume 41 (1931)
- The Intelligent Man's Way To Prevent War com outros (1933)
- Problems of Peace (Eighth Series) com outros (1933)
- Then and Now (1935)
- Liberality and Civilisation 1937 Hibbert (1938)
- Stoic, Christian and Humanist (1940)
- The Deeper Causes of the War and its Issues com outros (1940)
- World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940) pamphlet, The Royal Institute of International Affairs
- Anchor of Civilisation Philip Maurice Deneke (1942)
- A Conversation with Bryce James Bryce Memorial (1943)
- Myths and Ethics, or Humanism and the World's Need Conway Hall (1944)
- Humanism: Three BBC talks com Julian Huxley e Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1944)
- Victory and After (1945)
- From the League to the U.N. (1948)
- Spires of Libertywith com outros (1948)
- Andrew Lang: The Poet Andrew Lang 1947 (1948)
- The Meaning of Freedom essays, com outros (1956)
- Humanist Essays retirados de Essays and Addresses, Stoic, Christian and Humanist (1964)
Referências
- ↑ Australian by birth, he returned to Australia in the 1890s for a visit. It has been lamented that perhaps the most famous Australian of his time, [he] expressed no interest whatever in Australia.
- ↑ No one was exactly sure what Murray believed. His publisher Stanley Unwin took him as Rationalist and not Christian, but found him most Christian-like. (Memoirs of a Publisher). Ford Madox Ford, not always a reliable witness, describes in Return to Yesterday (p.229) a rigmarole Murray produced at a house party of Edward Clodd's, around 1905: Murray had some sort of patent faith of which all I can remember is that a black velvet coffin played a part in it. Murray's interest in some aspects of parapsychology is well documented. A. R. Orage's criticism of Murray (The New Age, 1913) as 'eclectic' applies. E. R. Dodds, Murray's pupil and successor, was advised to keep away from religion; Dodds might be taken as a more explicit rationalist in a line descending from Frazer. Murray's view on religion wasn't really separate from his Whiggishness.
- ↑ «Adlib Internet Server 5 | Details». internetserver.bishopsgate.org.uk. Consultado em 3 de janeiro de 2021
- ↑ Stephen Weldon, writing on a humanist site, argues that In many ways, the failure of nerve thesis was merely one version of an anticlerical view of history common during the Enlightenment period, a view that depicted the religionists as cowards and the rationalists as heroes. Murray's innovation was to encapsulate that attitude in a compelling argument, expressing historical causality in terms of individual psychology. Weldon goes on to point to the way Sidney Hook later took up the theme.
- ↑ "The Faith and Dr Gilbert Murray", John Crozier, New Blackfriars, Volume 72, Issue 848, Page 188-193, April 1991
- 1 2 First published in: The Athenian Drama, vol. III: Euripides (Euripides: Hippolytus; The Bacchae. Aristophanes: The Frogs. Translated into English rhyming verse), 1902 (OCLC 6591082); many reprints (together, separate, repackaged).