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Download or read book Plato's Cleitophon written by Mark Kremer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragment. However, in the last fifteen years, the complete and authentic dialogue was rediscovered. Upon its discovery, scholars have almost universally agreed that the Cleitophon is the introduction to Plato'sRepublic. In Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind editor, translator, and author, Mark Kremer, has mined some of the best scholarship on the relationship of Plato's Cleitophon and its relationship to modern thought. It is the contention of the editor that the Cleitophon, is an ancient example of the psychic, social, cultural, and moral strain that is put upon the citizens of a republic when their society begins to erode on all fronts. This work has the potential to afford readers an ancient perspective on ourselves by showing us how we appear in Plato's mind. It should be read by anyone who has ever read Plato'sRepublic; as well as anyone who is concerned about the social, psychic, cultural, and moral effects of postmodernity and globalization.
Book Synopsis Plato the Teacher by : William H. F. Altman
Download or read book Plato the Teacher written by William H. F. Altman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.
Download or read book Plato: Clitophon written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. It was almost certainly intended to bear closely on Plato's Republic and is a fascinating specimen of the philosophical protreptic, an important genre very fashionable at the time. This 1999 volume is a critical edition of this dialogue, in which Professor Slings provides a text based on an examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. His extensive introduction studies philosophical exhortation in the classical era, and tries to account for Plato's dialogues in general as a special type of exhortation. The Clitophon is seen as a defence of the Platonic dialogue. The commentary elucidates the Greek and discusses many passages where the meaning is not entirely clear.
Book Synopsis Ascent to the Good by : William H. F. Altman
Download or read book Ascent to the Good written by William H. F. Altman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit of others and at the expense of her own personal happiness. This book shows how Plato has prepared us, his students, to recognize that the sun-like Idea of the Good is an infinitely greater object of serious philosophical concern than what is merely good for me, and thus why neither Plato nor his Socrates are eudaemonists, as Aristotle unquestionably was. With the transcendent Idea of Beauty having been made manifest through Socrates and Diotima, the dialogues between Symposium and Republic—Lysis, Euthydemus, Laches, Charmides, Gorgias, Theages, Meno, and Cleitophon— prepare the reader to make the final leap into Platonism, a soul-stirring idealism that presupposes the student’s inborn awareness that there is nothing just, noble, or beautiful about maximizing one’s own good. While perfectly capable of making the majority of his readers believe that he endorses the harmless claim that it is advantageous to be just and thus that we will always fare well by doing well, Plato trains his best students to recognize the deliberate fallacies and shortcuts that underwrite these claims, and thus to look beyond their own happiness by the time they reach the Allegory of the Cave, the culmination of a carefully prepared Ascent to the Good.
Book Synopsis Plato's Euthyphro & Clitophon by : Jacques Bailly
Download or read book Plato's Euthyphro & Clitophon written by Jacques Bailly and published by Focus. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Greek language reader with extensive commentary in English; it is an ideal introduction to Plato and Greek prose. The Greek is clear and easy to follow but not overly simple, with word-by-word, line-by-line commentary including grammar help and explanation.
Book Synopsis The Nature of Political Philosophy by : Schall Sj James V.
Download or read book The Nature of Political Philosophy written by Schall Sj James V. and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-10-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final collection of essays, Father Schall explores the life of faith across a dazzling array of subjects, from Martin Luther to bioethics. With his characteristic patience, brilliance, and careful tenacity, Father Schall interrogates profoundly what it means to try to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God in the city of Man. Never shying away from controversy, across 14 articles and 4 book reviews Father Schall investigates the critical themes of his life and scholarship: reason and revelation; the nature of modernity; literature and salvation; metaphysics and politics; and much more. Whether the reader is new to Father Schall or a longtime student, this posthumously-published collection of essays offers a profound meditation on the nature of political philosophy, and particularly what it would mean for Catholicism to offer a political philosophy. From such fundamental considerations, Schall explores ethical, literary and legal themes, displaying his typical breadth and depth of engagement with all that is real. Ultimately, Father Schall leads one on a Socratic enterprise, an education whereby one comes to question for oneself basic assumptions, and to dig deeper into the first principles as they are recalled in the orders of knowledge and being. While Father Schall has passed on to his reward, this collection of essays helps ensure that his lessons continue to guide, challenge and enrich students for generations to come.
Book Synopsis The Roots of Political Philosophy by : Plato
Download or read book The Roots of Political Philosophy written by Plato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening an entirely new dimension of Platonic studies, this volume addresses major themes: the nature of law, property, and acquisitiveness; Socrates' famous "demonic voice"; the poetic claim to inspiration; and the psychology of the tyrannic.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel by : J. R. Morgan
Download or read book Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel written by J. R. Morgan and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, the result of a 2006 conference at the University of Wales in Lampeter, look at the influence of philosophical texts on the ancient novel. In both Greek and Latin novels substantial traces of philosophical ideas can be found; these essays discuss the levels on which they were intended to operate, and how they were meant to resonate with their audiences. Specific authors discussed include Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, Apuleius and Lucian, while the philosophical influences include Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics.
Book Synopsis An Engagement with Plato's Republic by : Basil Mitchell
Download or read book An Engagement with Plato's Republic written by Basil Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato's opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the force of the arguments that led Plato to enunciate them and consider the counter-arguments he might have marshalled to meet contemporary objections. This book encourages today's students to engage in Plato's thought, grapple with Plato's arguments, and explore the relevance of his arguments in contemporary terms. A text only comes alive if we make it our own; Plato's great work The Republic, often reads as though it were addressing the problems of the day rather than those of ancient Athens. Treating The Republic as a whole and offering a comprehensive introduction to Plato's arguments, Mitchell and Lucas draw students into an exploration of the relevance of Plato's thought to our present ideas about politics, society and education, as well as the philosophy of mathematics, science and religion. The authors bring The Republic to life. The first chapters help the reader to make sense of the text, either in translation or the original Greek. Later chapters deal with the themes that Plato raises, treating Plato as a contemporary. Plato is inexhaustible: he speaks to many different people of different generations and from different backgrounds. The Republic is not just an ancient text: it never ceases to be relevant to contemporary concerns, and it demands fresh discussion in every age.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Feminist Ethics by : Daryl Koehn
Download or read book Rethinking Feminist Ethics written by Daryl Koehn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether there can be a distinctively female ethics is one of the most important and controversial debates in gender studies, philosophy and psychology today. Rethinking Feminist Ethics; Care, Trust and Empathy marks a bold intervention in these debates and bridges the ground between women theorists disenchanted with aspects of traditional ethics and traditional theories that insist upon the need for some ethical principles.
Book Synopsis Plato's Critique of Impure Reason by : D. C. Schindler
Download or read book Plato's Critique of Impure Reason written by D. C. Schindler and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the "real image" of the good
Author :Gabriele Cornelli Publisher :Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Plato Journal 17 by : Gabriele Cornelli
Download or read book Plato Journal 17 written by Gabriele Cornelli and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Christopher W. Tindale Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438495552 Total Pages :452 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Plato's Reasons by : Christopher W. Tindale
Download or read book Plato's Reasons written by Christopher W. Tindale and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.
Book Synopsis Greek Dialogue in Antiquity by : Katarzyna Jażdżewska
Download or read book Greek Dialogue in Antiquity written by Katarzyna Jażdżewska and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.
Book Synopsis The Complete Works of Plato by : Plato
Download or read book The Complete Works of Plato written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 3807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's 'The Complete Works of Plato' is a comprehensive collection of his philosophical dialogues, encompassing topics such as ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Written in the form of dialogues between Socrates and various other characters, Plato's works are known for their Socratic method of inquiry and exploration of truth and virtue. His literary style is characterized by its depth, complexity, and intellectual rigor, making his works essential reading for anyone interested in the foundations of Western philosophy. The dialogues provide insight into Plato's views on the nature of reality, knowledge, and the ideal state. Plato, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, was deeply influenced by the intellectual climate of ancient Greece. His dialogues often reflect his dissatisfaction with the prevailing moral and political attitudes of his time, leading him to offer alternative visions of justice, virtue, and the good life. Plato's enduring influence on Western thought is evident in his continued relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy and politics. I highly recommend 'The Complete Works of Plato' to readers seeking a deeper understanding of classical philosophy and its enduring significance. Plato's dialogues remain essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of Western thought and the pursuit of wisdom.
Download or read book Plato’s Republic written by R C Cross and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Clitophon's Challenge by : Hugh H. Benson
Download or read book Clitophon's Challenge written by Hugh H. Benson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of Plato's 'Clitophon' can be seen to raise something like the following challenge: How is one to acquire (learn) the knowledge Socrates has so persuasively shown to be essential to virtue and apparently absent from us all. 'Clitophon's Challenge' explores Plato's response to this challenge from the 'Apology', 'Laches', 'Euthyphro', and 'Protagoras' to the 'Meno', 'Phaedo', and 'Republic'.
