Plato As Author
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Plato As Author
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Author : Ann N. Michelini
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Plato As Author written by Ann N. Michelini and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
This collection, focusing on literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues, includes diverse essays by scholars from several different fields. Topics include friendship and desire in the Lysis, Socratic irony in Cratylus, and mystery imagery in Phaedrus.
How To Read Plato
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Author : Richard Kraut
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-04-03
How To Read Plato written by Richard Kraut and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Philosophy categories.
'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Socrates Plato is the founding thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value, and few philosophers have escaped his influence or rivaled the depth of his works, many of which have remarkable dramatic power and literary beauty. His writings range over ethics, politics, religion, art, the structure of the natural world, mathematics, the human mind, love, sex and friendship. Richard Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasizes the influence of Socrates, whose devotion to the examined life and death at the hands of Athenian democracy are memorialized in many of Plato's writings, and the full extent of his moral and political thought and its metaphysical underpinning are investigated. Kraut argues that Plato's theory of forms is grounded in common sense, and that his critique of democracy and search for a rational religion continue to be of vital importance.
Books And Ideas
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Author : K. Staikos
language : en
Publisher: Hes & De Graff Pub B V
Release Date : 2013
Books And Ideas written by K. Staikos and has been published by Hes & De Graff Pub B V this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This examines the papyrus books collected by Plato himself, a habit which began when he was still 'studying' under Socrates and continued throughout his years of teaching in the Academy. The book deals extensively with the works of the Ionian and Eleatic Natural Philosophers, as well as of the Pyhagoreans, which informed the composition of Plato's Dialogues. Furthermore, through this process the fabric of Sophistic literature composed at Athens is unfolded and the pioneers who introduced the study of Mathematics in the Academy are discussed in brief. Finally, a large chapter in the book deals with the architecture of the Academy, including topographical surveys and scale plans which reveal interesting facts about the ideas that went into its design, and the use of its facilities.
A Day In Athens With Socrates
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Author : Plato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
A Day In Athens With Socrates written by Plato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
The New Plato
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Author : Thomas L Masson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-04
The New Plato written by Thomas L Masson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with categories.
THE reading of Plato is, like that of the Bible, only in a smaller way, indulged in by all supposedly educated Americans during their University days and remembered only in form. Indeed, the Bible has this advantage over Plato: it is read publicly every Sunday, so that snatches of its verbal grandeur must of necessity percolate through the minds of some of our more prominent citizens who have a reputation to maintain and therefore consider church-going in the nature of a necessity. But Plato stands unopened on the bookshelves. It might be well occasionally in place of one of our modem sermons to substitute the reading of one of Plato's dialogues. Socrates, as Emerson pointed out, is often tiresome. Yet he has the advantage of being generally instructive. Every reader of Plato is struck by his moderness. He never grows old. He is always of To-day. It was this which has led me to apply the form of his dialogues - familiar to students in Jowett's translation - to some phases of our modern life. In writing this book I have made no attempt to be serious. It would be quite proper (and usual) for me to say at this point, that if this volume should lead my reader to take up once again the study of Plato, then I should feel that it has not been written in vain. But even at the risk of disappointing a vast multitude, I shall not say this expected word. For the truth is, there is no reason why I should desire any one to read Plato. No modern author should encourage in any way the sale of old books. It is distinctly bad business. On the contrary, I should prefer, with due regard, of course, to that true modesty which no author should wholly dispense with, to press some of the advantages of this book upon the hesitating reader. The type is purposely made so large that it can be easily read after dark on most of our principal railroad systems. It is not too long to be fatiguing, and, indeed, may be tossed aside at any point without regard to the author's feelings. It has a mildly intellectual atmosphere, greatly in its favor and highly desirable; for example, at house parties. It is pleasantly dialectic in tone and contains no morbid allusions. It is not too humorous (a phrase which I hereby give the book reviewers leave to quote in place of the usual set criticism), and it has this grand quality: that what satire it may contain never applies to the reader, but always to someone else; so that everyone may feel perfectly safe to read it.
Plato And Platonism
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Author : Julius Moravcsik
language : en
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Release Date : 2000-06-15
Plato And Platonism written by Julius Moravcsik and has been published by Blackwell Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a rich and highly original treatment of Plato's views in the areas of epistemology, ontology, and ethics. Moravcsik rightly encourages us to be open to the idea that the study of Plato is valuable not only for historical reasons, but also based on what it can offer to us in our continuing reflections on pivotal topics such as the nature of human flourishing. Moravcsik's book is essential reading not only for those working in Greek philosophy, but also for anyone who is interested in exploring key approaches to enduring philosophical and human concerns. Susan B. Levin, Smith College. Plato and Platonism reviews the nature and limits of Platonic interpretation. The book begins with a discussion of Plato's conception of what a genuine rational discipline (a 'techne') should be. The author shows how the recollection theory of understanding, the Forms as ultimate explanatory factors, and Plato's ethics of the right human ideal, all grow out of conditions that are essential to the genuine 'technai'. Moravcsik goes on to demonstrate how questions about the explanatory power of the Theory of Forms, mainly emerging not from naturalistic or empiricist qualms but from deep reflections on Eleatic doctrines, led to elaboration and modifications in Plato's ontology. The author reveals that the clearest echoes of the basic Platonic explanatory pattern linking elements of reality may be seen in some of the work on the foundations of mathematics and the related concern with the Eleatic challenge, rather than the 'realism' of general analytic philosophy. The author also shows how different Plato's basic ethical questions are from those preoccupying modern philosophy, and what Platonistic ethics might look like today. Students, academics and researchers will find that Moravcsik's careful and rigorous analysis offers an understanding of what Platonism in our times would have been like. The book leads us to an appreciation of genuine Platonism, rarely discussed today.
Ethics Of Writing
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Author : Sean Burke
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-15
Ethics Of Writing written by Sean Burke and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The ethical question is the question of our times. Within critical theory, it has focused on the act of reading. This original and courageous study reverses the terms of inquiry to analyse the ethical composition of the act of writing.
Plato The Man And His Work Rle Plato
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Author : A.E. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Plato The Man And His Work Rle Plato written by A.E. Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Philosophy categories.
This book provides an introduction to Plato’s work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular, it tells the reader just what Plato says, and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato’s works to suit contemporary philosophical tastes. The author also gives an account that has historical fidelity - we cannot really understand the Republic or the Gorgias if we forget that the Athens of the conversations is meant to be the Athens of Nicias or Cleon, not the very different Athens of Plato’s own manhood. To understand Plato’s thought we must see it in the right historical perspective.
Platonic Studies
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Author : Gregory Vlastos
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1973-12-21
Platonic Studies written by Gregory Vlastos and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-12-21 with Philosophy categories.
This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the essays have appeared in various philosophical and classical journals or symposia, new in the volume are two major studies. One is on Plato's theory of love, exploring its metaphysical dimension and its far-reaching implications for personal and political relations. The other centers on semantic and logical problems in the Sophist; it offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. In these essays the author presents ideas which are likely to provoke comment and may be discussed as vigorously in scholarly journals as has some of his earlier work. The other papers, some of them extensively revised, comprise virtually all the author's published work on Plato, with the exception of a few papers easily accessible elsewhere. This second edition includes three additional essays and extensive notes that were not included in the original edition.
Authors And Authorities In Ancient Philosophy
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Author : Jenny Bryan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Authors And Authorities In Ancient Philosophy written by Jenny Bryan 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 2018-09-13 with History categories.
Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
