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The Mirror of Socrates

Author : Tibor Schatteles
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148080553X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Socrates written by Tibor Schatteles and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a testimony to his love of reading and the goal of sharing it with others, author Tibor Schatteles presents a collection of twelve essays that study a wide range of works of literature, including works of Philostratos of Lemnos, Sophocles, Cervantes (Don Quixote), Gogol, Chekhov, Balzac (Gobseck), Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust and Aristotle’s Poetics. In these essays, he presents the simple exercises of a reader reaching out to communicate with other readers, building on notes he made during first readings and gathered following his retirement from the Canadian Federal Civil Service. Taking a cue from Montaigne’s essay on reading books, he asks nothing of his books but “the pleasure of an honest entertainment”—and yet he also seeks to share his ideas with others and engage in discussion and analysis. In The Mirror of Socrates, Schatteles examines the seminal works of literature in scholarly details, sharing his thoughts, ideas, and interpretations of each author’s writing and purpose.

The Mirror

Author : Sabine Melchior-Bonnet
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415924481
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror written by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Mirror of Socrates : a Reader's Notes and Essays

Author : Tibor Schatteles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780973560824
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Socrates : a Reader's Notes and Essays written by Tibor Schatteles and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Socrates and Self-Knowledge

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107123305
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Socrates and Self-Knowledge written by Christopher Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of Socrates' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.

In the Mirror of the Phaedrus

Author : Mário Jorge de Carvalho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783896656261
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book In the Mirror of the Phaedrus written by Mário Jorge de Carvalho and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato

Author : Zacharoula Petraki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111178757
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato written by Zacharoula Petraki and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the severe criticism of mimēsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of artistic language rests on a positive model of mimēsis. Plato was in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’ relation to the Forms.

The Mirror of the Self

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226038351
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Self written by Shadi Bartsch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics—and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike.

The Tain of the Mirror

Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674867017
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Tain of the Mirror written by Rodolphe Gasché and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.

Exiling the Poets

Author : Ramona Naddaff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226567273
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Exiling the Poets written by Ramona Naddaff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato's fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation. Censorship, Nadaff argues, is not merely a mechanism of silencing but also provokes new ways of speaking about controversial and crucial cultural and artistic events. It functions philosophically in the Republic to subvert Plato's most crucial arguments about politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Naddaff develops this stunning argument through an extraordinary reading of Plato's work. In books 2 and 3, the first censorship of poetry, she finds that Plato constitutes the poet as a rival with whom the philosopher must vie agonistically. In other words, philosophy does not replace poetry, as most commentators have suggested; rather, the philosopher becomes a worthy and ultimately victorious poetic competitor. In book 10's second censorship, Plato exiles the poets as a mode of self-subversion, rethinking and revising his theory of mimesis, of the immortality of the soul, and, most important, the first censorship of poetry. Finally, in a subtle and sophisticated analysis of the myth of Er, Naddaff explains how Plato himself censors his own censorships of poetry, thus producing the unexpected result of a poetically animated and open-ended dialectical philosophy.

Matter Matters

Author : Kurt Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576913
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Matter Matters written by Kurt Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. The 'mathematization' of the physics is shown to have been conceptually underwritten by two methods of philosophizing, namely, analysis and synthesis. The connection between these things—mathematics, matter, and the methods of analysis and synthesis—has thus far gone unexplored by scholars. The book is in four Parts: Part I works out the context in which the theory of modern matter arose. Part II develops the method of analysis, showing how it aligns with Descartes's famous doctrine of clear and distinct ideas. Part III develops the method of synthesis, focusing primarily on Leibniz, showing how it establishes the very conditions necessary and sufficient for mathematics. Analysis and synthesis turn out to establish isomorphic conceptual systems, which turn out to be isomorphic to what mathematicians today call a group. The group concept expresses the conditions underwriting all of mathematics. Part IV examines several relatively new interpretations of Descartes—the realist and idealist readings—which appear to be at odds with one another. The examination shows the sense in which these readings are actually compatible, and together reveal a richer picture of Descartes's position on the reality of matter. Ultimately, Matter Matters establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists.

Socrates' Daimonic Art

Author : Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007585
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Socrates' Daimonic Art written by Elizabeth S. Belfiore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to Plato's characterization of Socrates, through analysis of erôs and philosophy in four dialogues on love and friendship.

Reexamining Socrates in the Apology

Author : John Russon
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810125872
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Reexamining Socrates in the Apology written by John Russon and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oracle was reported to have said, "No one is wiser than Socrates." And in fact it was Socrates’ life’s work to interpret these words, which demanded and defined the practice of philosophy. Each of these original essays attends carefully to the specifics of the Apology, looking to its dramatic details, its philosophic teaching, and its complexity as a work of writing to bring into focus the "Socrates" of the Apology. Overall, the contributors, distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy, share a belief in the unity of the letter and the spirit of Platonic philosophy: the conviction that the Platonic text cannot be reached except through reading and cannot be read except through thinking. In this way, the readings in this volume mirror Socrates’ own hermeneutical practice of uniting the demands of the mind and the demands of the text—the Socratic "examination." The result, true to the Socratic injunction that the unexamined life is not worth living, continues that practice of examination, here offering a reexamination of Socrates in the Apology.

Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393341216
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart written by Christopher Phillips and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Phillips takes] philosophy out of the ivory tower and into the street.”—Los Angeles Times Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we’re all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. That is, love not defined only as eros, or erotic love, but in all its classical varieties. Love of neighbor, love of country, love of God, love of life, and love of wisdom—each is clarified and invigorated in Phillips’s Socratic dialogues with people from all walks of life and from all over the world.

The Sea As Mirror

Author : Wu Yi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035803686
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Sea As Mirror written by Wu Yi and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea as Mirror traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a response to and moment within the impetus of Western colonization. Yi examines how philosophy has again and again constructed itself as a genre in opposition to the movement of deterritorialization and fluidity of mimesis. She does so via the method (meta, "after" + hodos, "way, journey") of a series of essayings (in the original sense of trial, measure, attempt) across a geopolitical topography of discourses. These include philosophical texts drawn from a constellation of historical topoi at the critical moments of their encounter with the maritime: Plato and Euripedes's work from fifth-century Athens; Augustus and Plautus's writings from republican and early imperial Rome; Shakespeare's creations from Elizabethan England; Kant and Rousseau's texts from enlightenment continental Europe; and the thinking of Husserl and Heidegger from interwar Germany of the twentieth century. For each historical topos, Yi juxtaposes different representations of and responses to the maritime through the reading of a philosophical text vis-à-vis the reading of a literary text. In so doing, she lays bare the deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the ocean in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.

The Liminality of Fairies

Author : Piotr Spyra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100009281X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liminality of Fairies written by Piotr Spyra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manifestations of liminality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Thomas of Erceldoune and Robert Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice, the volume offers a comprehensive theory of liminality rooted in structuralist anthropology and poststructuralist theory. Arguing that romance fairies both embody and represent the liminal, The Liminality of Fairies posits and answers fundamental theoretical questions about the limits of representation and the relationship between romance hermeneutics and criticism. The interdisciplinary nature of the argument will appeal not just to medievalists and literary critics but also to anthropologists, folklorists as well as scholars working within the fields of cultural history and contemporary literary theory.

Plato on Art and Beauty

Author : Alison Denham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368182
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Plato on Art and Beauty written by Alison Denham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions.

The Mirror of the Self

Author : Shadi Bartsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022637730X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of the Self written by Shadi Bartsch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People in the ancient world thought of vision as both an ethical tool and a tactile sense, akin to touch. Gazing upon someone—or oneself—was treated as a path to philosophical self-knowledge, but the question of tactility introduced an erotic element as well. In The Mirror of the Self, Shadi Bartsch asserts that these links among vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge are key to the classical understanding of the self. Weaving together literary theory, philosophy, and social history, Bartsch traces this complex notion of self from Plato’s Greece to Seneca’s Rome. She starts by showing how ancient authors envisioned the mirror as both a tool for ethical self-improvement and, paradoxically, a sign of erotic self-indulgence. Her reading of the Phaedrus, for example, demonstrates that the mirroring gaze in Plato, because of its sexual possibilities, could not be adopted by Roman philosophers and their students. Bartsch goes on to examine the Roman treatment of the ethical and sexual gaze, and she traces how self-knowledge, the philosopher’s body, and the performance of virtue all played a role in shaping the Roman understanding of the nature of selfhood. Culminating in a profoundly original reading of Medea, The Mirror of the Self illustrates how Seneca, in his Stoic quest for self-knowledge, embodies the Roman view, marking a new point in human thought about self-perception. Bartsch leads readers on a journey that unveils divided selves, moral hypocrisy, and lustful Stoics—and offers fresh insights about seminal works. At once sexy and philosophical, The Mirror of the Self will be required reading for classicists, philosophers, and anthropologists alike.