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Plato on the Limits of Human Life

Author : Sara Brill
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008913
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Plato on the Limits of Human Life written by Sara Brill and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that is an ambitious, well-researched and provocative scholarly reflection on soul in the Platonic corpus.” —Polis By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good political institutions against the threat of the soul’s excess. Brill’s sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies in Plato’s dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between city and soul. “Sara Brill takes on at least two significant issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of the soul, and especially the language of immortality in its description, and the relationship between politics and psychology. She treats each one of these topics in a fresh and nuanced way. Her writing is beautiful and fluid.” —Marina McCoy, Boston College

The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers

Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers written by Rudolf Eucken and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato's Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity

Author : Marek Piechowiak
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity written by Marek Piechowiak and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2019 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, apprehension of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding an individual in relation to law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian approaches.

Plato's Animals

Author : Jeremy Bell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253016207
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Animals written by Jeremy Bell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics.” —Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English. “Plato’s Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger.” —Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver “Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area.” —Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World

The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time

Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher : New York, Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time written by Rudolf Eucken and published by New York, Scribner. This book was released on 1909 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Platonica

Author : Alice Swift Riginos
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004045651
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Platonica written by Alice Swift Riginos and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Image and Argument in Plato's Republic

Author : Marina McCoy
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438479131
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Image and Argument in Plato's Republic written by Marina McCoy and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's philosophical argumentation. She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato is writing and then moves on to the main lines of argument and how they depend upon a variety of uses of the imagination, including paradigms, analogies, models, and myths. McCoy takes up the paradoxical nature of such key metaphysical images as the divided line and cave: on the one hand, the cave and divided line explicitly state problems with images and the visible realm. On the other hand, they are themselves images designed to draw the reader to greater intellectual understanding. The author gives a perspectival reading, arguing that the human being is always situated in between the transcendence of being and the limits of human perspective. Images can enhance our capacity to see intellectually as well as to reimagine ourselves vis-à-vis the timeless and eternal. Engaging with a wide range of continental, dramatic, and Anglo-American scholarship on images in Plato, McCoy examines the treatment of comedy, degenerate regimes, the nature of mimesis, the myth of Er, and the nature of Platonic dialogue itself.

Plato on Justice and Power

Author : Kimon Lycos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438411499
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Plato on Justice and Power written by Kimon Lycos and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-08-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most commentaries on the Republic rush through Book I with embarrassment because the arguments of the participants, including Socrates, are specious. Beginning with Book II, the arguments are brilliant, so why did Plato write Book I? Lycos shows that the function of Book I is to attack the view that justice is external to the soul—external to the power humans have to render things good—and is merely instrumental to a good society. The dramatic situation in Book I presents justice as internal, requiring not laws, but discrimination and virtue. After this introduction, the rest of the Republic serves to sketch out what virtue is and how to practice discrimination. Plato on Justice and Power ends with some illuminating contrasts between this sense of virtue and that characteristic of our modern liberal politics which takes an external view of justice similar to the Athenians view at the time of Plato.

Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education

Author : James M. Magrini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134994370
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education written by James M. Magrini and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between interpretations of "Third Way" Platonic scholarship and "phenomenological-ontological" scholarship, this book argues for a unique ontological-hermeneutic interpretation of Plato and Plato’s Socrates. Reconceptualizing Plato’s Socrates at the Limit of Education offers a re-reading of Plato and Plato’s Socrates in terms of interpreting the practice of education as care for the soul through the conceptual lenses of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, and ontological inquiry. Magrini contrasts his re-reading with the views of Plato and Plato’s Socrates that dominate contemporary education, which, for the most part, emerge through the rigid and reductive categorization of Plato as both a "realist" and "idealist" in philosophical foundations texts (teacher education programs). This view also presents what he terms the questionable "Socrates-as-teacher" model, which grounds such contemporary educational movements as the Paideia Project, which claims to incorporate, through a "scripted-curriculum" with "Socratic lesson plans," the so-called "Socratic Method" into the Common Core State Standards Curriculum as a "technical" skill that can be taught and learned as part of the students’ "critical thinking" skills. After a careful reading incorporating what might be termed a "Third Way" of reading Plato and Plato’s Socrates, following scholars from the Continental tradition, Magrini concludes that a so-called "Socratic education" would be nearly impossible to achieve and enact in the current educational milieu of standardization or neo-Taylorism (Social Efficiency). However, despite this, he argues in the affirmative that there is much educators can and must learn from this "non-doctrinal" re-reading and re-characterization of Plato and Plato’s Socrates.

The Problem of Human Life

Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781345491982
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Human Life written by Rudolf Eucken and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Long Life

Author : Helen Small
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615579
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Long Life written by Helen Small and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested that old age was the best place from which to practice philosophy - or Thomas Mann when he defined old age as the best time to be a writer - and were they right? If we think, as Aristotle did, that a good life requires the active pursuit of virtue, how will our view of later life be affected? If we think that lives and persons are unified, much as stories are said to be unified, how will our thinking about old age differ from that of someone who thinks that lives and/or persons can be strongly discontinuous? In a just society, what constitutes a fair distribution of limited resources between the young and the old? How, if at all, should recent developments in the theory of evolutionary senescence alter our thinking about what it means to grow old? This is a groundbreaking book, deep as well as broad, and likely to alter the way in which we talk about one of the great social concerns of our time - the growing numbers of those living to be old, and the growing proportion of the old to the young.

The Ten Golden Rules

Author : M. A. Soupios
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612830943
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Ten Golden Rules written by M. A. Soupios and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living a Richer, More Meaningful Life Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Epictetus, Epicurus, Pythagorus, Aesop—such wisdom, now at your fingertips. Timeless wisdom from these ancient Greek philosophers plus others has been condensed by the authors into ten memorable and easy-to-understand rules that, if lived by, can enable modern readers to have rich, meaningful lives. The ten rules . . . represent enduring features of the Greek wisdom. In a very real sense, they defy time and place and represent insights that remain profoundly relevant for contemporary culture. They can serve as anti-dotes for an age in which much that is true and valuable has been obscured by falsity and misconception. Accordingly, these ancient aphorisms are offered to all those interested in rubbing the dust from their eyes. With each chapter examining a rule, all chapters begin with a quote from one of the great Greek philosophers who inspired the rule, followed by a story or explanation of the rule and its importance in life, and end with teaching points on which to meditate and reflect. From this simple starting point, each rule allows the reader to unfurl and explore the richness and depth that can be found in life by embracing the lesson offered. Any reader searching for meaning will return to this simple, slim volume again and again to find tried-and-true wisdom that spans the ages to speak to us today.

The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time

Author : Rudolf Eucken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from Plato to the Present Time written by Rudolf Eucken and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boundaries of Human Nature

Author : Matthew Calarco
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550960
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Boundaries of Human Nature written by Matthew Calarco and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological destruction? In this accessible and engaging book, Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. He leads readers on a spirited tour of historical and contemporary philosophy, ranging from Plato to Donna Haraway and from the Cynics to the Jains. Calarco unearths surprising insights about animals from a number of philosophers while also underscoring ways in which the philosophical tradition has failed to challenge the dogma of human-centeredness. Along the way, he indicates how mainstream Western philosophy is both complemented and challenged by non-Western traditions and noncanonical theories about animals. Throughout, Calarco uses examples from contemporary culture to illustrate how philosophical theories about animals are deeply relevant to our lives today. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.

Plato’s Tough Guys and Their Attachment to Justice

Author : Peter J. Hansen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590985
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Tough Guys and Their Attachment to Justice written by Peter J. Hansen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful reading of Plato’s works show that Thrasymachus and Callicles, his famous immoralists, are unselfconsciously devoted to virtue as they see it. They thereby offer surprising support for the view that people are not simply self-interested, and they cast light on the beliefs and hopes we all have of justice.

Plato and the Elements of Dialogue

Author : John H. Fritz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498512054
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Elements of Dialogue written by John H. Fritz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato and the Elements of Dialogue examines Plato’s use of the three necessary elements of dialogue: character, time, and place. By identifying and taking up striking employments of these features from throughout Plato’s work, this book seeks to map their functions and importance. By focusing on the Symposium, Cratylus, and Republic, this book shows three ways that characters can be related to what they do and what they say. Next, the book takes up ‘displacement’ by focusing on the Hippias Major, arguing that individual characters can be expanded by the repeated practice of asking them to consider a question from a point of view other than their own. This ties into the treatments of ‘thinking’ in the Theaetetus and Sophist. The Parmenides, Lysis, and Philebus are examined to come to a better understanding of the functions of the settings (times/places) of Plato’s dialogues, while a reading of the beginning of the of the Phaedo shows how Plato can expand the settings of the dialogues by using ‘frames’ in order to direct his readers. Last, this book takes up the ‘critique of writing’ that closes the Phaedrus.

A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Author : W. T. Stace
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book A Critical History of Greek Philosophy written by W. T. Stace and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Critical History of Greek Philosophy" by W. T. Stace. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.