Interpreting Plato
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Interpreting Plato S Dialogues
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Author : Angelo J. Corlett
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2005-12-01
Interpreting Plato S Dialogues written by Angelo J. Corlett 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 new way of approaching Plato neither sees Plato's words as doctrines according to which the dialogues are to be interpreted, nor does it reduce Plato's dialogues to dramatic literature. Rather, it seeks to interpret the primary aim of Plato's writings as being influenced primarily by Plato's respect for his teacher, Socrates, and the manner in which Socrates engaged others in philosophical discourse. It places the focus of philosophical investigation of Plato's dialogues on the content of the dialogues themselves, and on the Socratic way of doing philosophy.
Interpreting Plato
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Author : James A. Arieti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Interpreting Plato written by James A. Arieti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite Plato's various warnings not to do so, his dialogues have been studied as systematic philosophy since antiquity. In this innovative and controversial reassessment, James Arieti argues that they should be read primarily as works of drama rather than philosophical discourse. Analyses of 18 of the 28 dialogues allow the reader to see them as integrated dramas, with all the ambiguities and uncertainties that literary works contain. As in plays generally, the arguments of particular characters cannot be seen as the opinions of the author, whose views emerge only from examining each work as a whole. This literary reading shows how much of the debate about Plato's meaning has been misplaced. Instead of demonstrating that an argument is fallacious or valid, we need to ask why Plato has the particular character make the argument. Interpreting Plato achieves what no other work on Plato has attempted: to see the philosophical arguments as serving a dramatic purpose.
Interpreting Plato Socratically
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Author : J. Angelo Corlett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Interpreting Plato Socratically written by J. Angelo Corlett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Philosophy categories.
J. Angelo Corlett’s new book, Interpreting Plato Socratically continues the critical discussion of the Platonic Question where Corlett’s book, Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues concluded. New arguments in favor of the Mouthpiece Interpretation of Plato’s works are considered and shown to be fallacious, as are new objections to some competing approaches to Plato’s works. The Platonic Question is the problem of how to approach and interpret Plato’s writings most of which are dialogues. How, if at all, can Plato’s beliefs, doctrines, theories and such be extracted from dialogues where there is no direct indication from Plato that his own views are even to be found therein? Most philosophers of Plato attempt to decipher from Plato’s texts seemingly all manner of ideas expressed by Socrates which they then attribute to Plato. They seek to ascribe to Plato particular views about justice, art, love, virtue, knowledge, and the like because, they believe, Socrates is Plato’s mouthpiece through the dialogues. But is such an approach justified? What are the arguments in favor of such an approach? Is there a viable alternative approach to Plato’s dialogues? In this rigorous account of the dominant approach to Plato’s dialogues, there is no room left for reasonable doubt about the problematic reasons given for the notion that Plato’s dialogues reveal either Plato’s or Socrates’ beliefs, doctrines or theories about substantive philosophical matters. Corlett’s approach to Plato’s dialogues is applied to a variety of passages throughout Plato’s works on a wide range of topics concerning justice. In-depth discussions of themes such as legal obligation, punishment and compensatory justice are clarified and with some surprising results. Plato’s works serve as a rich source of philosophical thinking about such matters. A central question in today’s Platonic studies is whether Socrates, or any other protagonist in the dialogues, presents views that the author wanted to assert or defend. Professor Corlett offers a detailed defense of his view that the role of Socrates is to raise questions rather than to provide the author’s answers to them. This defense is timely as intellectual historians consider the part played by Academic scholars centuries after Plato in systematizing Platonism. J. J. Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania
The Third Way
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Author : Francisco J. Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1995
The Third Way written by Francisco J. Gonzalez and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
The study of Plato's dialogues has traditionally oscillated between two paradigms: one that portrays the dialogues as treatises expounding doctrines and one that sees them as purely skeptical, rhetorical, or literary. This collection of new essays by twelve noted Plato scholars illustrates the fruitfulness of breaking away from those paradigms, which have divided Platonic scholarship and led it to a number of dead ends. While the essays are diverse in their approaches, each seeks to find a 'third way' to understand Plato, reading him as neither a dogmatist nor a skeptic but as a philosopher capable of reconciling the content and form of his writings.
Plotinus Ennead Vi 4 Vi 5
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Author : Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven
language : en
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Plotinus Ennead Vi 4 Vi 5 written by Eyjolfur Strange Emilsson, Steven and has been published by Parmenides Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Philosophy categories.
Ennead VI.4-5, originally written as a single treatise, contains Plotinus' most general and sustained exposition of the relationship between the intelligible and the sensible realms, addressing and coalescing two central issues in Platonism: the nature of the soul-body relationship and the nature of participation. Its main question is, How can soul animate bodies without sharing their extension? The treatise seems to have had considerable impact: it is much reflected in Porphyry's important work, Sententiae, and the doctrine of reception according to the capacity of the recipient, for which this treatise is the main source, resonated in medieval thinkers.
Methods Of Interpreting Plato And His Dialogues
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Author : James Carl Klagge
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 1992
Methods Of Interpreting Plato And His Dialogues written by James Carl Klagge and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Philosophy categories.
In this supplementary volume, a number of renowned scholars of Plato reflect upon their interpretive methods. Topics covered include the use of ancient authorities in interpreting Plato's dialogues, Plato's literary and rhetorical style, his arguments and characters, and his use of the dialogue form. The collection is not intended as a comprehensive survey of methodological approaches; rather it offers a number of different perspectives and clearly articulated interpretations by leading scholars in the field.
Plato S First Interpreters
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Author : Harold Tarrant
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2000
Plato S First Interpreters written by Harold Tarrant and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Philosophy categories.
Harold Tarrant here explores ancient attempts to interpret Plato's writings, by philosophers who spoke a Greek close to Plato's own, and provides a fresh, almost primitive reading of Plato himself. His book also serves as a synthesis of recent work on ancient interpreters of Plato.Tarrant's primary emphasis is on the Middle Platonists, but he also discusses the Old and New Academies, the Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonists, and selected nonphilosophical writers. In Part I, he addresses some of the principal issues of interpretation--Are the dialogues drama or philosophy? Is Plato offering doctrine? What parts of the corpus are most important?--and considers them alongside the views of ancient readers. In Part II, he offers a historical overview of significant ancient developments in interpretation over the centuries. In Part III, he considers ancient attitudes toward particular groups of dialogues, and the Gorgias and the Theaetetus individually
The Art Of Plato
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Author : R. B. Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1995
The Art Of Plato written by R. B. Rutherford and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterisation, language and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including the Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and the Phaedrus. Special attention is paid to the personality of Socrates, Plato's remarkable mentor, and to his interaction with the other characters in the dialogues. Rutherford also includes detailed discussion of particular problems such as the sources for our knowledge of Socrates, the origins of the dialogue form, Plato's use of myth, and the 'totalitarianism' of the Republic. The combination of sympathetic literary criticism with exact historical scholarship gives The Art of Plato its special qualities.
Interpreting Plato
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Author : Eugène Napoléon Tigerstedt
language : en
Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell International
Release Date : 1977
Interpreting Plato written by Eugène Napoléon Tigerstedt and has been published by Almqvist & Wiksell International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Philosophy categories.
Reading Plato
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Author : Thomas A. Szlezák
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-11-21
Reading Plato written by Thomas A. Szlezák and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-21 with History categories.
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy. Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.