God And Forms In Plato

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God Forms In Plato

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Author : Richard D. Mohr
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2005

God Forms In Plato written by Richard D. Mohr and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. New interpretations are given to Plato's views on the role and characteristics of his craftsman God, the nature and status of Forms, the nature of time and eternity, the status and nature of space and the phenomenal realm, and the nature of and relations between reason, souls, bodies, and motion. The book is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many (though not all) features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. It defends the view that for Plato God makes the world in the way that a carpenter cuts a board to be exactly a yard long - by applying a yard stick to the board and removing the excess wood. This view of a making requires that there be standards or measures that exist independently both of the agent who creates and the world on which he works. These standards are Plato's Forms. Transcendent Forms cannot be excised from the Platonic metaphysics as many modern critics have been trying to do in an attempt to make Plato respectable by today's criteria of philosophical decency. This work presents a revised and updated edition of the author's 1985 book The Platonic Cosmology (E.J. Brill, Leiden) together with four revised and updated essays by the author on Plato's metaphysics, and a wholly new essay, ""Extensions,"" which expands the themes of the book into wider philosophical contexts.

Images Of The Spirit

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Author : Meredith G. Kline
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 1999-01-05

Images Of The Spirit written by Meredith G. Kline and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-05 with Religion categories.

The underlying concept developed here is the paradigmatic function of the theophanic Glory-cloud in the creation of the image of God. Dr. Kline identifies the major symbolic models employed in Scripture to expound the nature of the divine image in humanity - the priestly and the prophetic.

God And Forms In Plato

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Author : Richard D. Mohr
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2005-12-01

God And Forms In Plato written by Richard D. Mohr and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-01 with Philosophy categories.

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. New interpretations are given to Plato's views on the role and characteristics of his craftsman God, the nature and status of Forms, the nature of time and eternity, the status and nature of space and the phenomenal realm, and the nature of and relations between reason, souls, bodies, and motion.

Plato S Gods

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Author : Gerd Van Riel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22

Plato S Gods written by Gerd Van Riel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Religion categories.

This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.

A Companion To Plato

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Author : Hugh H. Benson
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15

A Companion To Plato written by Hugh H. Benson and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Philosophy categories.

This broad-ranging Companion comprises original contributions from leading Platonic scholars and reflects the different ways in which they are dealing with Plato’s legacy. Covers an exceptionally broad range of subjects from diverse perspectives Contributions are devoted to topics, ranging from perception and knowledge to politics and cosmology Allows readers to see how a position advocated in one of Plato’s dialogues compares with positions advocated in others Permits readers to engage the debate concerning Plato’s philosophical development on particular topics Also includes overviews of Plato’s life, works and philosophical method

Philosophy And Religion In Plato S Dialogues

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Author : Andrea Nightingale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-06

Philosophy And Religion In Plato S Dialogues written by Andrea Nightingale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with History categories.

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

Plato S Self Corrective Development Of The Concepts Of Soul Forms And Immortality In Three Arguments Of The Phaedo

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Author : Martha C. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1999

Plato S Self Corrective Development Of The Concepts Of Soul Forms And Immortality In Three Arguments Of The Phaedo written by Martha C. Beck and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.

This study argues both that the proofs are ultimately unconvincing and that Plato was aware of the problems. The Phaedo is shown as a truly dialectical philosophical conversation about the immortality of the soul.

The Doctrine Of The Imitation Of God In Plato

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Author : Culbert Gerow Rutenber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946

The Doctrine Of The Imitation Of God In Plato written by Culbert Gerow Rutenber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with Ethics categories.

Neil Gaiman And Philosophy

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Author : Tracy Lyn Bealer
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Release Date : 2012

Neil Gaiman And Philosophy written by Tracy Lyn Bealer and has been published by Open Court Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.

Explores philosophical ideas in the works of Neil Gaiman, including "American Gods," "Coraline," "The Graveyard Book," and "Neverwhere."

Plato S Cosmology And Its Ethical Dimensions

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Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-31

Plato S Cosmology And Its Ethical Dimensions written by Gabriela Roxana Carone and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-31 with Philosophy categories.

Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly symbiotic relation between the cosmic and human sphere. It is argued that in his late period Plato presents a picture of an organic universe, endowed with structure and intrinsic value, which both urges our respect and calls for our responsible intervention. Humans are thus seen as citizens of a university that can provide a context for their flourishing even in the absence of good political institutions. The book sheds light on many intricate metaphysical issues in late Plato and brings out the close connections between his cosmology and the development of his ethics.