Myth And Metaphysics In Plato S Phaedo
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Myth And Metaphysics In Plato S Phaedo
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Author : David A. White
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 1989
Myth And Metaphysics In Plato S Phaedo written by David A. White and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Death categories.
This study intends principally to isolate and describe the function of myth in the Phaedo in order to show its effect on the complex metaphysics developed throughout the dialogue. It further illustrates how these metaphysical concepts structure the dialogue's concluding eschatological myth.
Rhetoric And Reality In Plato S Phaedrus
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Author : David A. White
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-02-23
Rhetoric And Reality In Plato S Phaedrus written by David A. White and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02-23 with Philosophy categories.
The Phaedrus is well-known for the splendid mythical panorama Socrates develops in his second speech, and for its graphic descriptions of erotic behavior. This book shows how the details of the myth and the accounts of interaction between lovers are based on a carefully articulated metaphysical structure. It follows the dialogue as narrated, showing how passages that may not appear relevant to metaphysics have been deployed to heighten the vision of reality that Socrates develops in his second speech and concludes with an Epilogue in which the metaphysical principles adumbrated in the dialogue are ordered and briefly developed. This Epilogue helps illustrate the continuity between the Phaedrus and subsequent dialogues, such as the Parmenides, Sophist, Statesman, and Philebus, in which methodological and metaphysical concerns are dominant for Plato. As a result, new connections emerge between the metaphysical domain in Plato's thought and the more visible and vibrant areas of the psychology of eros and practical rhetoric. -- Back cover.
Myth Metaphysics And Dialectic In Plato S Statesman
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Author : David A. White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Myth Metaphysics And Dialectic In Plato S Statesman written by David A. White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with History categories.
Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues The Philebus and The Laws. The central interpretive focus of the book is the extended myth, sometimes called the 'myth of the reversed cosmos'. As a result of this interpretative approach, White argues that The Statesman can be recognized (a) as both internally coherent and also profound in implication-the myth is crucial in both regards - and (b) as integrally related to the concerns of Plato's later dialogues.
Plato And Myth
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Author : Catherine Collobert
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-02-17
Plato And Myth written by Catherine Collobert and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-17 with Philosophy categories.
Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.
Selected Myths
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Author : Plato,
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-26
Selected Myths written by Plato, and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Philosophy categories.
This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths, from eight of Plato's dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They include the famous myth of the cave from Republic as well as 'The Judgement of Souls' and 'The Birth of Love'. Each myth is a self-contained story, prefaced by a short explanatory note, while the introduction considers Plato's use of myth and imagery.
Myth Metaphysics And Dialectic In Plato S Statesman
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Author : David A. White
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-29
Myth Metaphysics And Dialectic In Plato S Statesman written by David A. White and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with History categories.
Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions. In this book David White interprets the dialogue in ways which account for this problematic structure, and which also connect the primary themes of the dialogue with two subsequent dialogues The Philebus and The Laws. The central interpretive focus of the book is the extended myth, sometimes called the 'myth of the reversed cosmos'. As a result of this interpretative approach, White argues that The Statesman can be recognized (a) as both internally coherent and also profound in implication-the myth is crucial in both regards - and (b) as integrally related to the concerns of Plato's later dialogues.
The Embodied Self In Plato
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Author : Orestis Karatzoglou
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-04-06
The Embodied Self In Plato written by Orestis Karatzoglou and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with History categories.
This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but also provides the subject of inquiry with the ability to actualize, to the extent possible, the ideal self. The Republic locates bodily desires and needs in the tripartite soul. Achievement of maximal unity is dependent upon successful training of the rational part of the soul, but the earlier curriculum of Books 2 and 3, which aims at instilling a pre-reflectively virtuous disposition in the lower parts of the soul, is a prerequisite for the advanced studies of Republic 7. In the Timaeus, the world soul is fashioned out of Being, Sameness, and Difference: an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus’ Receptacle, the third ontological principle which emerges as the quasi-material component that provides each individual soul with the alloplastic capacity for psychological growth and alteration.
Soul World And Idea
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Author : Daniel Sherman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-10-03
Soul World And Idea written by Daniel Sherman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-03 with Philosophy categories.
In its examination of two of Plato's key works, Soul, World, and Idea: An Interpretation of Plato's Republic and Phaedo reveals the key role that images and our capacity for image-making play in the relationship among soul, world, and Idea. This bookbegins and ends with a reading of the Republic. Daniel Sherman turns midway to the Phaedo to further analyze the nature of the soul and its relation to the nature of the Ideas, then returns to apply the conclusions to the rest of the Republic. Sherman's focus is on the ontological and epistemological argument, including attention to the dramatic detail. He argues that the ontology of the Ideas in the Republic and the Phaedo is inseparable from the ontology of human being, that is, from the structure and life of the soul. On this interpretation, the Ideas are seen as indeed objective but as in a sense also a product of a permanent dialectical relationship. The Ideas, though something more than concepts, do not have any real independent existence outside of this human dialectical triad of world, soul and Idea. The stability of the Ideas need not be grounded in a static otherworldliness, and the condition of meaning is not temporally prior to human existence in general. The result is a new interpretation concerning the realm of the Ideas, the immortality of the soul, and the lived in world of their interaction in the production of interpretive images. Sherman argues that the platonic soul is immortaland the Ideas eternal wholly and solely in human (dialogical) activity--the rest is muthologia--and that the world of our experience is a product of an ongoing act of interpretation or dianoetic dialegesthai. This reinterpretation of the platonic Ideas will be especially interesting to students and scholars of classics, ancient philosophy, and continental philosophy.
Plato S Phaedo
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Author : Plato
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1972
Plato S Phaedo written by Plato 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 1972 with Dialogues, Greek categories.
The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each other in his philosophy.
Myth And Mysticism In Plato S Phaedo
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Author : Nour Abu Husan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Myth And Mysticism In Plato S Phaedo written by Nour Abu Husan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This thesis explores the philosophical significance of eschatological myth in Plato's Phaedo. Against the view that that the eschatological myths of the Phaedo are unphilosophical or are only made philosophical by being demythologized, in my thesis I argue that they are essentially philosophical, where philosophy is understood as the love of wisdom. I claim that Socrates spoke meaningfully when he characterized philosophy as a kind of love rooted in our complex relationship to the Divine. I support this view by reading Socrates' claims to ignorance and appeals to the notion of mystery in the Phaedo, as deeply earnest. In my thesis, I give an extensive exegesis of the notions of myth and mystery in the text order to explain Socrates' turn to eschatological myth and to defend its philosophical status.