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Plato and Tradition

Author : Patricia Fagan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810166364
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Plato and Tradition written by Patricia Fagan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s dialogues are some of the most widely read texts in Western philosophy, and one would imagine them fully mined for elemental material. Yet, in Plato and Tradition, Patricia Fagan reveals the dialogues to be continuing sources of fresh insight. She recovers from them an underappreciated depth of cultural reference that is crucial to understanding their central philosophical concerns. Through careful readings of six dialogues, Fagan demonstrates that Plato’s presentation of Socrates highlights the centrality of tradition in political, erotic, and philosophic life. Plato embeds Socrates’s arguments and ideas in traditional references that would have been familiar to contemporaries of Socrates or Plato but that today’s reader typically passes over. Fagan’s book unpacks this cultural and literary context for the proper and full understanding of the philosophical argument of the Platonic dialogues. She concludes that, as Socrates demonstrates in word and deed, tradition is essential to successful living. But we must take up tradition with a critical openness to questioning its significance and future. Her original and compelling analyses may change the views of many readers who think themselves already well versed in the dialogues.

Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought

Author : Tae-Yeoun Keum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984641
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by : Tae-Yeoun Keum

Download or read book Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought written by Tae-Yeoun Keum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.

Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504699
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.

Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature

Author : Richard Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107012929
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature written by Richard Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato is one of the central figures of the Greek literary heritage. This book explores that heritage in antiquity.

The Platonic Tradition

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587316500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Platonic Tradition written by Peter Kreeft and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much THE central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on it. It is like the Confucian tradition in Chinese culture, or the monotheistic tradition in religion, or the human rights tradition in politics. In the first of his eight lectures, Peter Kreeft defines Platonism and its "Big Idea," the idea of a transcendent reality that the history of philosophy has labeled "Platonic Ideas" or Platonic Forms. In the second lecture, he briefly explores Plato's two basic predecessors or sources, myth and Socrates; and then looks at 12 applications of the Forms in Plato's own dialogues. The third lecture covers the three most important modifications or additions to Plato himself in the Platonic tradition: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine, each of whom gave the Forms a new metaphysical address. The fourth lecture explores six Christian Platonists, three in the New Testament and three philosophers, Justin Martyr, Bonaventure, and Aquinas. The next three lectures explore the consequences of the modern abandoning of Platonism, beginning with William of Ockham's Nominalism, as the source of nearly all modern philosophical errors, and its results in the Empiricism of Locke and Hume, the so-called Copernican Revolution in philosophy in Kant, the so-called "analytic philosophy," which still dominates English and American philosophy departments. In the sixth essays, Kreeft looks at 13 influential kinds of positivism or reductionism in modern thought: in method, history, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, sociology, politics, logics, linguistics, sex, psychology, and theology, exemplified by Descartes, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Marx, Kant, Comte, Rousseau, Rawls, Ayer, Derrida, Freud, Skimmer, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Lecture 7 looks at the results of abandoning the Platonic tradition in ethics, the values vacuum, or nihilism, in Ecclesiastes, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoi, Marcel, and Buber. In the last lecture, Kreeft looks at some experiential evidence for Platonism, doors out of the cave that are still open, signals of transcendence.

The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages

Author : Stephen Gersh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110908492
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages written by Stephen Gersh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias

Author : Gijsbert Jonkers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433520X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias written by Gijsbert Jonkers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers presents a new examination of the medieval manuscripts of both Platonic dialogues, an overview of the ancient tradition and a vast collection of ancient testimonia.

Traditions of Platonism

Author : John M. Dillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditions of Platonism written by John M. Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breadth and depth of the Platonic tradition, from Antiquity through to the early Middle Ages, is evidenced by the studies gathered in this volume, written by an international team of contributors in honour of John Dillon. The first papers, on Plato, include a discussion of the problem of evil and of the theme of love n the Symposium. There follows a section of the Middle-Platonists, dealing with how this tradition adapted and developed themes such as the world-soul as a mirror and the notion of an intellible cosmos. Five papers then focus on aspects of the thought of Plotinus, and a final group covers the later Neoplatonic tradition, from Augustine to John Scotus Eriugena, including a survey by the late Henry Blumenthal on perception and memory.

Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition

Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415806
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition written by Christina Hoenig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.

The Textual Tradition of Plato's Republic

Author : G. J. Boter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004087873
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book The Textual Tradition of Plato's Republic written by G. J. Boter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

Author : Mark Joyal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351897357
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition written by Mark Joyal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers. It ranges from the discussion of issues in individual Platonic dialogues to the examination of Platonism in the Middle Ages. The essays are written by leading scholars in the field and reflect the current state of knowledge on the various problems under discussion. The collection as a whole testifies to the importance of the Platonic writings for the history of ideas, and to the vitality that the study of these writings continues to possess.

Plato's Caves

Author : Rebecca Lemoine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190936983
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Caves written by Rebecca Lemoine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist flyers featuring slogans like "Let's Become Great Again" and "Protect Your Heritage" against the backdrop of white marble statues depicting figures such as Apollo and Hercules. Groups like Identity Evropa (which sponsored the flyers) oppose cultural diversity and quote classical thinkers such as Plato in support of their anti-immigration views. The traditional scholarly narrative of cultural diversity in classical Greek political thought often reinforces the perception of ancient thinkers as xenophobic, and this is particularly the case with interpretations of Plato. While scholars who study Plato reject the wholesale0dismissal of his work, the vast majority tend to admit that his portrayal of foreigners is unsettling. From student protests over the teaching of canonical texts such as Plato's Republic to the use of images of classical Greek statues in white supremacist propaganda, the world of the ancient Greeks is deeply implicated in a heated contemporary debate about identity and diversity. 0In Plato's Caves, Rebecca LeMoine defends the bold thesis that Plato was a friend of cultural diversity, contrary to many contemporary perceptions. LeMoine shows that, across Plato's dialogues, foreigners play a role similar to that of Socrates: liberating citizens from intellectual bondage. Through close readings of four Platonic dialogues-Republic, Menexenus, Laws, and Phaedrus-LeMoine recovers Plato's unique insight into the promise, and risk, of cross-cultural engagement. Like the Socratic "gadfly" who stings the "horse" of Athens into wakefulness, foreigners can provoke citizens to self-reflection by exposing contradictions and confronting them with alternative ways of life.

Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature

Author : Richard L. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139217996
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature written by Richard L. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology and re-imaginings of Socrates' defence, Plato's rich style and the criticisms it attracted and how Petronius and Apuleius threaded Plato into their richly comic texts. The scene for these case studies is set through a thorough examination of how the tradition constructed the relationship between Plato and Homer, of how Plato adapted poetic forms of imagery to his philosophical project in the Republic, to shared techniques of representation between poet and philosopher and to foreshadowings of later modes of criticism in Plato's Ion. This is a major contribution to Platonic studies, to the history of Platonic reception from the fourth century BC to the third century AD and to the literature of the Second Sophistic"--

Russia's Plato

Author : Frances Nethercott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351726307
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Plato written by Frances Nethercott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930. The book contains five chapters with the first aiming to provide the general institutional context in which Russian 19th century Plato scholarship developed, caught as it were, between the rise of the historical sciences and the heavy hand of state interference in standardizing the educational system in the name of nation building and modernization. The second chapter attempts to illustrate how Plato served as a reference in Russian philosophical culture and the third deals with aspects of Russian philosophy of law. In the fourth chapter, the author shifts his approach to compare and contrast a number of reactions to a single dialogue, the "Republic" and in the final concluding chapter, addresses the question of whether it is legitimate to speak of a Russian Platonism.

The Greek Tradition, from the Death of Socrates to the Council of Chalcedon (399 B.C. to 451 A.D.): The religion of Plato

Author : Paul Elmer More
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Tradition, from the Death of Socrates to the Council of Chalcedon (399 B.C. to 451 A.D.): The religion of Plato written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402770524
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Plato written by Julia Annas and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Julia Annas provides an incisive exploration of the many-sided and elusive genius whose wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas continue to challenge, provoke, and inspire us today"--Page 4 of cover.

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition

Author : James L. Kastely
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068382
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition written by James L. Kastely and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? In this thought-provoking book, James L. Kastely examines works by writers from Plato to Jane Austen and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice. While dealing principally with literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, the author's arguments extend to practical concerns and open up the way to deeper thinking about individual responsibility for existing injustices, for inadvertently injuring others, and for silencing those without power.