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Download or read book Platon-oeuvres Completes V.5 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holger Thesleff
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972598
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Platonic Patterns written by Holger Thesleff and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonic Patterns is a reprint collection of many of Holger Thesleff's studies in Plato-spanning from 1967 to 2003. It includes three books, four articles and a new introduction by the author, which sets the general outline of his interpretation of Plato. Whereas much of the scholarship on Plato has tended to operate within the frame of one language and/or a single school of thought, Thesleff constructively combines several discoveries and theories (philosophical, philological and historical) of various scholars with his own research, focusing on how Plato can be understood in his own context.The work represents small but significant breakthroughs in research on Plato from an internationally inclusive standpoint. Having previously been published mainly in Finland by scholarly societies, availability outside the Nordic countries has, up until now, been minimal.Thesleff employs his singular expertise of Greek language and literature to make innovative contributions to the study and interpretation of Plato. He thematically stresses the significance of the less overt elements found in Plato's dialogues, such as Plato's use of humor and his linguistic expression, while taking into account the chronology and/or the intended audience.
Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677306X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Plato's Theaetetus written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Author : David Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471196
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato written by David Ebrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato's philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521436106
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato written by Richard Kraut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Author : Panos Dimas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192525077
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Plato's Philebus written by Panos Dimas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. The Philebushad a far greater influence on Aristotle's ethics than the frequently studied Republic - yet historians of philosophical ethics have relatively neglected it and existing commentaries tend to emphasize certain aspects at the expense of others. This edited volume, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars of ancient philosophy to take a fresh and comprehensive look at this important work. Each essay focuses on a relatively brief section of the Philebus and discusses the passages methodically, covering topics such as pleasure, knowledge, philosophical method, and the human good in detail. The result is not and is not intended to be a commentary, nor does it aim to present a unified interpretation. It is instead a series of close, original philosophical examinations, often in conversation with each other, which together provide continuous coverage of the Philebus. This reference work, a useful resource for teaching and studying, is valuable reading for researchers, scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in Plato, ancient Greek ethics, and in the history of ethics.
Author : Gregory Vlastos
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930972490
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Plato's Universe written by Gregory Vlastos and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished Platonic scholar discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the "e;cosmos"e; on man's perception of his place in the universe, describes the problems this posed, and interprets Plato's response to this discovery.Starting with the Presocratics, Vlastos describes the intellectual revolution that began with the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes in the sixth century B.C. and culminated a century later in the atomist system of Leucippus and Democritus. What united these men was that for all of them nature remained the inviolate, all-inclusive principle of explanation, precluding any appeal to a supernatural cause or ordering agency.In a detailed analysis of the astronomical and physical theories of the Timaeus, Vlastos demonstrates Plato's role in the reception and transmission of the discovery of the new conception of the universe. Plato gives us the chance to see that movement from a unique perspective: that of a fierce opponent of the revolution who was determined to wrest from its brilliant discovery, annex its cosmos, and redesign it on the pattern of his own idealistic and theistic metaphysics.This book is a reprint of the edition published in 1975 by the University of Washington Press. It includes a new Introduction by Luc Brisson.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316154300
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Plato: Phaedrus written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its composition to the twentieth century. A new Greek text of the dialogue is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a Commentary, which elucidates the text and makes clear how Plato achieves his philosophical and literary objectives. Primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of ancient Greek literature and philosophy, it will also benefit scholars who want an up-to-date account of how to understand the text, argument, style and background of the work.
Author : George H. Rudebusch
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806192496
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Plato's Philebus written by George H. Rudebusch and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the fourth century BCE, Philebus is likely one of Plato’s last Socratic dialogues. It is also famously difficult to read and understand. A multilayered inquiry into the nature of life, Philebus has drawn renewed interest from scholars in recent years. Yet, until now, the only English-language commentary available has been a work published in 1897. This much-needed new commentary, designed especially for philosophers and advanced students of ancient Greek, draws on up-to-date scholarship to expand our understanding of Plato’s complex work. In his in-depth introduction, George Rudebusch places the Philebus in historical, philosophical, and linguistic context. As he explains, the dialogue deals with the question of whether a good life consists of pleasure or knowing. Yet its exploration of this question is riddled with ambiguity. With the goal of facilitating comprehension, particularly for students of philosophy, Rudebusch divides his commentary into twenty discrete subarguments. Within this framework, he elucidates the significance—and possible interpretations—of each passage and dissects their philological details. In particular, he analyzes how Plato uses inference indicators (that is, the Greek words for “therefore” and “because”) to establish the structure of the arguments, markers difficult to present in translation. A detailed and thorough commentary, this volume is both easy to navigate and conducive to new interpretations of one of Plato’s most intriguing dialogues.
Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226670392
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Being of the Beautiful written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Being of the Beautiful collects Plato’s three dialogues, the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesmen, in which Socrates formulates his conception of philosophy while preparing for trial. Renowned classicist Seth Benardete’s careful translations clearly illuminate the dramatic and philosophical unity of these dialogues and highlight Plato’s subtle interplay of language and structure. Extensive notes and commentaries, furthermore, underscore the trilogy’s motifs and relationships. “The translations are masterpieces of literalness. . . . They are honest, accurate, and give the reader a wonderful sense of the Greek.”—Drew A. Hyland, Review of Metaphysics
Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004201831
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Plato and the Poets written by Pierre Destrée and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s discussions of poetry and the poets stand at the cradle of Western literary criticism. Plato is, paradoxically, both the philosopher who cites, or alludes to, works of poetry more than any other, and the one who is at the same time the harshest critic of poetry. The nineteen essays presented here aim to offer various avenues to this paradox, and to illuminate the ways poetry and the poets are discussed by Plato throughout his writing career, from the Apology and the Ion to the Laws. As well as throwing new light on old topics, such as mimesis and poetic inspiration, the volume introduces fresh approaches to Plato’s philosophy of poetry and literature.
Author : Alfred Croiset
Publisher : Les Belles Lettres
ISBN 13 : 9782251002118
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Platon, Oeuvres Completes written by Alfred Croiset and published by Les Belles Lettres. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platon avait 20 ans lorsqu'il fit la rencontre de Socrate : sa vie autant que la philosophie, en furent bouleversees. Fils de bonne famille, fin rheteur et bon gymnase, Platon etait tout destine a la politique qu'il abandonna pour suivre son maitre : la cite avait perdu un dirigeant et gagne un philosophe. La tentation politique est d'ailleurs loin d'etre absente des preoccupations de Platon, comme en temoigne, outre La Republique, ses voyages aupres du tyran de Sicile, Denys de Syracuse. A la mort de Socrate, le philosophe devient ecrivain : a partir de cette epoque Platon se met a ecrire, d'abord pour mettre en scene les paroles de son mentor. Dans ces premiers ecrits, Socrate est tour a tour confronte au sophiste Hippias, auquel il apprend que la plus precieuse des connaissances est de ne rien savoir, au bel Alcibiade a qui est commente le fameux connais-toi toi-meme inscrit sur le fronton du temple de Delphes, au pretre Euthyphron, et surtout, dans l'Apologie de Socrate, a Melitos et Anytos, les accusateurs qui le firent condamner. Ces dialogues de jeunesse evoquent avec vivacite et nostalgie le maitre tant admire et qui vient de disparaitre. Ce volume, qui regroupe, Hippias Mineur, Alcibiade, Euthyphron, l'Apologie de Socrate, Criton et Euthyphron ouvre notre edition des oeuvres Completes de Platon. En guise d'introduction, il contient une riche biographie de Platon, accompagnee d'une d'une histoire de la tradition manuscrite ainsi que d'un classement des dialogues. Chaque texte est precede d'une notice qui lui est propre. Celle-ci presente le contexte philosophique, historique et politique, tandis que les personnages, fictifs ou reels, font l'objet d'une attention particuliere, a commencer par Socrate dont la vie est relatee dans la notice de l'Apologie. Outre ces eclaircissements, de judicieuses pistes de reflexion sont proposees, tant litteraires que philosophiques. L'ouvrage est enfin enrichi de notes qui accompagnent la lecture. Texte etabli et traduit par Maurice Croiset.
Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677340X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Plato's Sophist written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships. "Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Author : Ann N. Michelini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004128781
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Plato As Author written by Ann N. Michelini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David A. White
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636014
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo written by David A. White and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Elena Blair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136299467
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Plato's Dialectic on Woman written by Elena Blair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting the view of texts written more than two thousand years in the past. And yet, in spite of the recent surge of interest on woman in Plato, no comprehensive work identifying his position on the subject has yet appeared. This book considers not only the totality of Plato’s texts on woman and the feminine, but also their place within both his philosophy and the historical context in which it developed. But this book is not merely a textual study situating the subject of woman philosophically and historically; it also uncovers the implications hidden in the texts and the relationships that follow from them. It draws an image of the Platonic woman as rich and full as the textual and historical information allows, offering new and sometimes unexpected results beyond the topic of woman, illuminating aspects of Plato’s work that are of relevance to Platonic studies in general.
Author : Kevin Corrigan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271075589
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Plato's Dialectic at Play written by Kevin Corrigan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symposium is one of Plato’s most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato’s Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play. Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to a picture of the dialogue’s underlying structure, related to both argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between Diotima’s higher mysteries and the organization of the dialogue as a whole. On this basis the authors argue that the Symposium, with its positive theory of art contained in the ascent to the Beautiful, may be viewed as a companion piece to the Republic, with its negative critique of the role of art in the context of the Good. Following Nietzsche’s suggestion and applying criteria developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, they further argue for seeing the Symposium as the first novel. The book concludes with a comprehensive reevaluation of the significance of the Symposium and its place in Plato’s thought generally, touching on major issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of art, the body-soul connection, the problem of identity, the relationship between mythos and logos, Platonic love, and the question of authorial writing and the vanishing signature of the absent Plato himself.
