Plato's Erotic World

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536850
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Erotic World by : Jill Gordon

Download or read book Plato's Erotic World written by Jill Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's entire fictive world is permeated with philosophical concern for Eros, well beyond the so-called erotic dialogues. Several metaphysical, epistemological and cosmological conversations - Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus and Phaedo - demonstrate that Eros lies at the root of the human condition and that properly guided Eros is the essence of a life well lived. This book presents a holistic vision of Eros, beginning with the presence of Eros at the origin of the cosmos and the human soul, surveying four types of human self-cultivation aimed at good guidance of Eros and concluding with human death as a return to our origins. The book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the 'erotic dialogues' and demonstrates that Plato's world is erotic from beginning to end: the human soul is primordially erotic and the well-cultivated erotic soul can best remember and return to its origins, its lifelong erotic desire.

The Symposium and the Phaedrus

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791416174
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis The Symposium and the Phaedrus by : Plato

Download or read book The Symposium and the Phaedrus written by Plato and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Symposium and the Phaedrus are combined here because of their shared theme: a reflection on the nature of erotic love, the love that begins with sexual desire but can transcend that origin and reach even the heights of religious ecstasy. This reflection is carried out explicitly in the speeches and conversations in the dialogues, and implicitly in the dramatic depiction of actions and characters. Thus, the two dialogues deal with a theme of enduring interest and are interesting for both their literary and their philosophical character. In addition to the introduction, the book contains substantial commentaries and thorough endnotes. Key Greek terms are discussed for readers who are unfamiliar with the language. A special feature is a discussion on the importance of the dramatic and literary aspects of the dialogues for interpreting their philosophical content. The introductions deal with the nature of the dialogues themselves as philosophical texts and with Plato's philosophical assumptions and key concepts, as well as with the necessary background of Athenian society. The endnotes clarify any ambiguities and obscurities in the original text, identifying all references to people, places, gods, et cetera. The commentaries are designed to open up the dialogues for the reader, showing the issues that have been debated by commentators and considering some of the responses to them. They are designed to stimulate further reflection.

Eros, Wisdom, and Silence

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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Book Synopsis Eros, Wisdom, and Silence by : James M. Rhodes

Download or read book Eros, Wisdom, and Silence written by James M. Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a while one comes across a work that strikes one as the definitive word on the text it examines. This is such a work' - David Walsh. This substantial study presents an in-depth and meticulous study of Plato's treatment of love in Symposium, Phaedrus and the Seventh Letter.

Erotic Wisdom

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791475836
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Book Synopsis Erotic Wisdom by : Gary Alan Scott

Download or read book Erotic Wisdom written by Gary Alan Scott and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and highly readable commentary on one of Plato’s most beloved dialogues.

Plato's World

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226121222
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (212 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's World by : Joseph Cropsey

Download or read book Plato's World written by Joseph Cropsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-05-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Cropsey examines the crucial relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - Theaetetus, Sophist, Euthyphro, Statesman, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo - in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is affected with unreason, populated by human beings unaided by gods and dealt with equivocally by nature. Masterfully leading the reader through the seven scenes of the drama, Cropsey shows how they are, to an astonishing degree, concerned with the resources available to help us survive in such a world.

Plato's Erotic Thought

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781580460682
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Erotic Thought by : Alfred Geier

Download or read book Plato's Erotic Thought written by Alfred Geier and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book then explores the Lysis and the Phaedrus, which both address how the object arises, in two different ways, the Socratic and the Platonic."--BOOK JACKET.

Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000092887
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Book Synopsis Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher by : Nickolas Pappas

Download or read book Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher written by Nickolas Pappas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues. Those exceptional elements of experience – love, city, philosopher – do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical ambition to intensify the concepts and experiences one normally thinks with. His investigations point beyond the fates of these particular exceptions to broader conclusions about Plato’s world. Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher will be of interest to any readers of Plato, and of ancient philosophy more broadly.

Plato's Animals

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

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Book Synopsis Plato's Animals by : Jeremy Bell

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

Plato's Socrates as Narrator

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183311
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Socrates as Narrator by : Anne-Marie Schultz

Download or read book Plato's Socrates as Narrator written by Anne-Marie Schultz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Socrates’ role as narrator of the Lysis, Charmides, Protagoras, Euthydemus, and Republic. New insights about each dialogue emerge through careful attention to Socrates’ narrative commentary. These insights include a re-reading of the aporetic ending of the Lysis, a view of philosophy as a means of overcoming tyranny in the Charmides, a reconsideration of virtue in the Protagoras, an enhanced understanding of Crito in the Euthydemus, and an uncovering of two models of virtue cultivation (self-mastery and harmony) in the Republic. This book presents Socrates’ narrative commentary as a mechanism that illustrates how the emotions shape Socrates’ self-understanding, his philosophical exchanges with others, and his view of the Good. As a result, this book challenges the dominant interpretation of Socrates as an intellectualist. It offers a holistic vision of the practice of philosophy that we would do well to embrace in our contemporary world.

Plato's Statesman

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464096
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato's Statesman by : John Sallis

Download or read book Plato's Statesman written by John Sallis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses. The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato’s dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what is said but also how it is said, by whom and to whom it is said, and when and where it is said. In this way, the contributors approach the text in a manner that responds to the dialogue itself rather than bringing preconceived questions and scholarly debates to bear on it. The essays are especially attuned to the comedic elements that run through much of the dialogue and that are played out in a way that reveals the subject of the comedy. In the Statesman, these comedies reach their climax when the statesman becomes a participant in a comedy of animals and thereby is revealed in his true nature. .

Image and Argument in Plato's Republic

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143847914X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Image and Argument in Plato's Republic by : Marina Berzins McCoy

Download or read book Image and Argument in Plato's Republic written by Marina Berzins McCoy and published by State University of New York 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’s Trial of Athens

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474227260
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato’s Trial of Athens by : Mark A. Ralkowski

Download or read book Plato’s Trial of Athens written by Mark A. Ralkowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato's dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato's Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and save his city from repeating her worst mistakes of the 5th century. Plato's Trial of Athens addresses challenging questions about the historicity of Plato's dialogues, and it traces Plato's critique of Athenian public life and polis culture from the trial in 399 up through the Laws and the Atlantis myth in the Critias and Timaeus. In the end, Ralkowski shows that what began as a bitter response to the unjust, politically-charged trial of Socrates, evolved into a pessimistic reflection on the role of philosophy in a democratic society, a theory about Athens' 5th century decline, and cautionary tale about the corrupting influences of naval imperialism.

Phaedrus

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Phaedrus by : Plato

Download or read book Phaedrus written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Phaedrus" is a dialogue by Plato, representing a discussion between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and his interlocutor Phaedrus. The work was presumably composed around 370 BCE, about the same time as Plato's "Republic" and "Symposium." The dialogue develops the topic of love, the art of rhetoric and how it should be practiced, metempsychosis (the Greek tradition of reincarnation), and erotic love.

Plato on Love

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840591
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Plato on Love by : Plato

Download or read book Plato on Love written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes the following sections: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Ascent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love.

Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107072883
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws by : Lucia Prauscello

Download or read book Performing Citizenship in Plato's Laws written by Lucia Prauscello and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato's Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

Symposia

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791442630
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Symposia by : Louis A. Ruprecht

Download or read book Symposia written by Louis A. Ruprecht and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the underlining of erotic matters in Plato's dialogues marks the most significant moment in his career.

Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062845
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece by : Jill Gordon

Download or read book Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece written by Jill Gordon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks. The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans, Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound, and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.