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Plato’s Labyrinth

Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030917096
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Labyrinth written by Michael Carroll and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One wants to preserve history. Another seeks to resurrect a legendary army. A third plans to infuse the past with technology to save millions. If you could go back in time, what would you do? Something strange is going on at ChronoCorp. Coffin-shaped pods and glowing talismans, feathered dinosaurs and ancient murals; the private laboratory’s quirky scientists have been quite busy, indeed. The reason? Katya, Xavier, Todd, and colleagues are on a singular scientific mission: to surpass the limits of modern physics and unlock the power of time travel. Their early experiments have proved a resounding success, taking them to far-flung places in both time and space, from nineteenth-century New York to ancient Thera. But as their research progresses, the stakes get ever higher. Enter a world of competing interests and conflicting timelines, where nothing is quite what it seems. Why is Xavier acting so oddly? Where exactly did their eccentric benefactor Mila van Dijk get her wealth? What is the Primus Imperium, and what does its mysterious head—known only as “The Ambassador”—want from them? Come along as the colleagues at ChronoCorp and their ragtag allies race to sew up several unravelling timelines, battling those who would harm them in the past and present to preserve what is left of their future.

Plato’s Labyrinth

Author : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351190695
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Labyrinth written by Aakash Singh Rathore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as labyrinthine texts replete with sophistries and lies that mask behind them important philosophical and political conspiracies. Plato's Labyrinth argues that these conspiracies and intrigues are of manifold kinds – in some, Plato is masterminding the conspiracy; in others, Socrates, or the Sophists, are the victims of the conspiracies. With supplementary forays ('intermissions') into the world of Xenophon and the Sophists, the complex and evolving series of overlapping arguments that the book lays out unfold within an edgy and dramatic narrative. Presenting innovative readings of major texts – Plato's Parmenides, Republic, Symposium and Meno as also Homer's Odyssey – this work is an ambitious attempt to synthesize philological, political, historical and philosophical research into a classical text-centred study that is at once of urgent contemporary relevance. This book aims to revitalize the study of ancient Greek thought in all its diverse disciplinary richness and will interest students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, especially those in philosophy, Greek and classical studies, language and literature, politics, media and culture studies, theatre and performance studies, and history.

Plato’s Gorgias

Author : Mário Jorge de Carvalho
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN 13 : 9892620143
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Plato’s Gorgias written by Mário Jorge de Carvalho and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though at first it may seem to deal with rather specific questions concerning rhetoric, Plato’s Gorgias turns out to be about human life, and what is at stake in it. This apparent “change of subject” – or rather this ambiguity in the dialogue’s subjectmatter – has to do with the fact that the Gorgias is very much like a labyrinth: puzzling, intricate, made of multiple meandering paths in which one can easily get lost, and full of deviations which turn this way and that, of entrances that seem to be dead ends, and of dizzying turns that distort all sense of direction.

Retracing the Platonic Text

Author : John Russon
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117037
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Retracing the Platonic Text written by John Russon and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a Continental perspective, Retracing the Platonic Text reveals dimensions of the dialogues that are not addressed by traditional philosophy. These essays by prominent scholars focus on the texts' literary elements, in particular challenges to contemporary interpretations of the Platonic dialogue as a whole. The result illustrates the depth of Platonic thought and the debt of all philosophy to it. Retracing the Platonic Text is a pioneering effort in demonstrating how Continental philosophy both reflects and expands upon Greek philosophy.

Plato's Reasons

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)

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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.

Plato's Labyrinth

Author : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
ISBN 13 : 9781138481084
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Labyrinth written by Aakash Singh Rathore and published by Routledge Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 2018 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as labyrinthine texts replete with sophistries and lies that mask behind them important philosophical and political conspiracies. Plato's Labyrinth argues that these conspiracies and intrigues are of manifold kinds - in some, Plato is masterminding the conspiracy; in others, Socrates, or the Sophists, are the victims of the conspiracies. With supplementary forays ('intermissions') into the world of Xenophon and the Sophists, the complex and evolving series of overlapping arguments that the book lays out unfold within an edgy and dramatic narrative. Presenting innovative readings of major texts - Plato's Parmenides, Republic, Symposium and Meno as also Homer's Odyssey - this work is an ambitious attempt to synthesize philological, political, historical and philosophical research into a classical text-centred study that is at once of urgent contemporary relevance. This book aims to revitalize the study of ancient Greek thought in all its diverse disciplinary richness and will interest students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, especially those in philosophy, Greek and classical studies, language and literature, politics, media and culture studies, theatre and performance studies, and history.

Plato's Labyrinth

Author : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367892906
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Labyrinth written by Aakash Singh Rathore and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato's Philosophers

Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226993388
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Philosophers written by Catherine H. Zuckert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.

Plato's "Laws"

Author : Seth Benardete
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826422
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Plato's "Laws" written by Seth Benardete and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work. The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of the Laws, which illuminates Plato’s major themes and arguments concerning theology, the soul, justice, and education. Most importantly, Benardete shows how music in a broad sense, including drama, epic poetry, and even puppetry, mediates between reason and the city in Plato’s philosophy of law. Benardete also uncovers the work’s concealed ontological dimension, explaining why it is hidden and how it can be brought to light. In establishing the coherence and underlying organization of Plato’s last dialogue, Benardete makes a significant contribution to Platonic studies.

Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289542
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s Phaedo has never failed to attract the attention of philosophers and scholars. Yet the history of its reception in Antiquity has been little studied. The present volume therefore proposes to examine not only the Platonic exegetical tradition surrounding this dialogue, which culminates in the commentaries of Damascius and Olympiodorus, but also its place in the reflections of the rival Peripatetic, Stoic, and Sceptical schools. This volume thus aims to shed light on the surviving commentaries and their sources, as well as on less familiar aspects of the history of the Phaedo’s ancient reception. By doing so, it may help to clarify what ancient interpreters of Plato can and cannot offer their contemporary counterparts.

Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato

Author : Hugo Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793639299
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato written by Hugo Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses. In the appendix, Moreno shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of philosophizing in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.

The Caravan

Author : Delhi Press Magazines
Publisher : Delhi Press Magazines
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caravan written by Delhi Press Magazines and published by Delhi Press Magazines. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caravan is India’s most respected and admired magazine on politics, art and culture. With a strong literary flair, the magazine presents the best of reportage and commentary on politics, policy, economy, art and culture from within South Asia. It has become an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the political and social environment of the country.

Topography and Deep Structure in Plato

Author : Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438462719
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Topography and Deep Structure in Plato written by Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran examines the use of place in Plato's dialogues. Corcoran argues that spatial representations, such as walls, caves, and roads, as well as the creation of eternal patterns and chaotic images in the particular spaces, times, characterizations, and actions of the dialogues, provide clues to Plato's philosophic project. Throughout the dialogues, the Good serves as an overarching ordering principle for the construction of place and the proper limit of spaces, whether they be here in the world, deep in the underworld, or in the nonspatial ideal realm of the Forms. The Good, since it escapes the limits of space and time, equips Plato with a powerful mythopoetic tool to create settings, frames, and arguments that superimpose different dimensions of reality, allowing worlds to overlap that would otherwise be incommensurable. The Good also serves as a powerful ethical tool for evaluating the order of different spaces. Corcoran explores how Plato uses wrestling and war as metaphors for the mixing of the nonspatial, eternal forms in the world and history, and how he uses spatial images throughout the dialogues to critique Athens's tragic overreach in the Peloponnesian War. Far from merely an incidental backdrop in the dialogues, place etches the tragic intersection of the mortal and the immortal, good and evil, and Athens's past, present, and future.

How Socrates Became Socrates

Author : Laurence Lampert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674647X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book How Socrates Became Socrates written by Laurence Lampert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Plato’s strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates’ becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to give readers access to Socrates’ development on philosophy’s fundamental questions of being and knowing. In addition to a careful and precise analysis of Plato’s Phaedo,Parmenides, and Symposium, Lampert shows that properly entwined, Plato’s three dialogues fuse to portray a young thinker entering philosophy’s true radical power. Lampert reveals why this radicality needed to be guarded and places this discussion within the greater scheme of the politics of philosophy.

The Phaedo

Author : Ronna Burger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Phaedo written by Ronna Burger and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" -- the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Burger's attempt to trace the underlying argument of the work as a whole leads to a radical rethinking of the status of those doctrines The movement of that argument is marked by the structural division of the dialogue into two halves, linked and separated by a central interlude in which Socrates warns against the great danger of "misology", or loss of trust in logos. That danger, which threatens the very possibility of philosophic inquiry, comes to overshadow the threat posed by the fear of death, which motivated the original series of arguments. The turn this necessitates, from the first to the second half of the dialogue, brings about a transformation of the understanding of knowledge, the ideas, the soul, death, and immortality. With this "second sailing", as Socrates calls it, the "Platonism" presented in the Phaedo emerges as precisely the target of which the dialogue is a critique.

Borges and Plato

Author : Shlomy Mualem
Publisher : Iberoamericana Editorial
ISBN 13 : 8484895955
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Borges and Plato written by Shlomy Mualem and published by Iberoamericana Editorial. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative approach shows how the Platonic viewpoint sheds new light on Borges' essayistic and fictional work. Analyses to which extent his thought is deeply rooted in classical philosophical doctrines.

The Soul of Socrates

Author : Nalin Ranasinghe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437465
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Socrates written by Nalin Ranasinghe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From this re-reading, Ranasinghe proposes new answers to such perennial problems as the invalidity of the four proofs of the soul's immortality in the Phaedo, the draconian nature of the perfect regime described in the Republic, and the nature of Socrates' dalliance with Alcibiades in the Symposium."--BOOK JACKET.