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The Posthumous Life of Plato

Author : F. Novotny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400997043
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Posthumous Life of Plato written by F. Novotny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's earthly life ended in the year 347 B. C. At the same time, however, began his posthumous life - a life of great influence and fame leaving its mark on aU eras of the history of European learning -lasting until present times. Plato's philosophy has taken root earlier or later in innumerable souls of others, it has matured and given birth to new ideas whose proliferation further dissemi nated the vital force of the original thoughts. It happened sometimes, of course, that by various interpretations different and sometimes altogether contradictory thoughts were deduced from one and the same Platonic doctrine: this possibility is also characteristic of Plato's genius. Even though in the history of Platonism there were times less active and creative, the continuity of its tradition has never been completely interrupted and where there was no growth and progress, at least that what had been once accepted has been kept alive. When enquiring into Plato's influence on the development of learning, we shall above all consider the individual approach of various personalities to Plato's philosophy, personal Platonism, which at its best concerns itself with the literary heritage of Plato and though accessible was not always much sought for.

The Posthumous Life of Plato

Author : František Novotný
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The Posthumous Life of Plato written by František Novotný and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato's Dialogues

Author : Gerald Alan Press
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847678365
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Dialogues written by Gerald Alan Press and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by philosophers, philologists and historians exemplify both the pluralism and shared values of recent scholarship on Plato's dialogues and philosophy. They emphasise the interdependence of ideas, literary and dramatic elements, and the historical and cultural contexts.

Plato

Author : Enoch Pond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato written by Enoch Pond and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato of Athens

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197564769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Plato of Athens written by Robin Waterfield and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Plato of Athens is the first-ever biography of the world-famous philosopher. Born into a well-to-do family, he grew up in the increasing gloom of wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. Alongside a normal Athenian education, in his teens he honed his intellect by attending lectures by the many thinkers who passed through Athens, and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. Instead he turned to writing and teaching. In 383 he founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment, But he also returned after a while to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect his political ideals. The attempt failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in his later political works"--

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

Author : Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231101295
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Columbia History of Western Philosophy written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analyses of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy. Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and Popkin provides notes that draw connections among the separate articles. The rich bibliographic information and the indexes of names and terms make the volume a invaluable resource.

The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426340
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that the dialogue in Plato's Phaedo is primarily devoted to presenting Socrates' final defense of the philosophical life against the theoretical and political challenge of religion.

Psychology Library Editions: History of Psychology

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000519120
Total Pages : 2543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Psychology Library Editions: History of Psychology written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 2543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1928 and 1987, the volumes in this set provide an interesting look back at how psychology has developed as a discipline and some of the problems it has encountered along the way. It includes volumes focusing on the history of specific fields such as developmental and experimental psychology, as well as examining the roots of psychological theory as a whole and how it has informed many of the fields of psychology we know today.

Platonic Legislations

Author : David Lloyd Dusenbury
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319598430
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Platonic Legislations written by David Lloyd Dusenbury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became – in the longue durée – its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need for legal critique and the desire for legal permanence set the long arc of Plato’s corpus—from the Apology to the Laws. Modern philosophers and legal historians have tended to overlook the fact that Plato was the most prolific legislator in ancient Greece. In the pages of his Republic and Laws, he drafted more than 700 statutes. This is more legal material than can be credited to the archetypal Greek legislators—Lycurgus, Draco, and Solon. The status of Plato’s laws is unique, since he composed them for purely hypothetical cities. And remarkably, he introduced this new genre by writing hard-hitting critiques of the Greek ideal of the sovereignty of law. Writing in the milieu in which immutable divine law vied for the first time with volatile democratic law, Plato rejected both sources of law, and sought to derive his laws from what he called ‘political technique’ (politikê technê). At the core of this technique is the question of how the idea of justice relates to legal and institutional change. Filled with sharp observations and bold claims, Platonic Legislations shows that it is possible to see Plato—and our own legal culture—in a new light “In this provocative, intelligent, and elegant work D. L. Dusenbury has posed crucial questions not only as regards Plato’s thought in the making, but also as regards our contemporaneity.”—Giorgio Camassa, University of Udine “There is a tension in Greek law, and in Greek legal thinking, between an understanding of law as unchangeable and authoritative, and a recognition that formal rules are often insufficient for the interpretation of reality, and need to be constantly revised to match it. Dusenbury’s book illuminates the sophistication of Plato’s legal thought in its engagement with this tension, and explores the potential of Plato’s reflection for modern legal theory.”—Mirko Canevaro, The University of Edinburgh

Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato)

Author : A.E. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136234772
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato) written by A.E. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to Plato’s work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular, it tells the reader just what Plato says, and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato’s works to suit contemporary philosophical tastes. The author also gives an account that has historical fidelity - we cannot really understand the Republic or the Gorgias if we forget that the Athens of the conversations is meant to be the Athens of Nicias or Cleon, not the very different Athens of Plato’s own manhood. To understand Plato’s thought we must see it in the right historical perspective.

The Banquet of Plato

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Banquet of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato

Author : Michael LaFargue
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438460252
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato written by Michael LaFargue and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today. Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Platos legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Platos Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character and become like God so far as is humanly possible. LaFargue constructs a model of inductive Socratic reasoning capable of acquiring knowledge of these perfect Virtue-Forms, then scales back claims about these Forms to what can be supported by this kind of reasoning. This is a critical theory, but also a pluralistic one that accommodates modern cultural diversity. A how-to chapter provides detailed descriptions of the rules of Socratic reasoning basic to this spirituality, which any interested individual can practice today. LaFargue supports his interpretation by a close reading of the Greek text of key passages in Platos dialogues. The work also undertakes a broader philosophical consideration, discussing the philosophical foundations proposed for this Platonism in relation to the thought of G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Rorty.

Russia's Plato

Author : Frances Nethercott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351726307
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Plato written by Frances Nethercott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930. The book contains five chapters with the first aiming to provide the general institutional context in which Russian 19th century Plato scholarship developed, caught as it were, between the rise of the historical sciences and the heavy hand of state interference in standardizing the educational system in the name of nation building and modernization. The second chapter attempts to illustrate how Plato served as a reference in Russian philosophical culture and the third deals with aspects of Russian philosophy of law. In the fourth chapter, the author shifts his approach to compare and contrast a number of reactions to a single dialogue, the "Republic" and in the final concluding chapter, addresses the question of whether it is legitimate to speak of a Russian Platonism.

Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Gerald A. Press
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826491774
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Gerald A. Press and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-12-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a clear and thorough account of Plato's philosophy, his major works, and his ideas, and acts as a useful guide to the important and complex thought of this prominent philosopher.

Platonic and Ciceronian Studies

Author : John Glucker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527525090
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Platonic and Ciceronian Studies written by John Glucker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of essays published by John Glucker between 1987 and 2014 in various books and periodicals, now assembled for the first time. They deal with aspects of the contributions to Western thought of two of its major representatives – indeed, two of the major figures in the whole of European intellectual history – Plato and Cicero. All but one of the book’s chapters are in English, but ancient texts are usually quoted in the original Greek or Latin. Some of these essays deal with the interpretation of sections or parts of Plato and Cicero’s philosophical works, while others study the influence of these writings on the history of ancient and modern thought. Some of the articles are more technical, and will therefore be of interest to scholars and reserachers, while others are directed at ‘laymen’ with a good basic background knowledge of Western thought.

Utopia and Its Discontents

Author : Sebastian Mitchell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441172181
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Utopia and Its Discontents written by Sebastian Mitchell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia and Its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate how they construct, challenge and explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and the social and political ideals of their own periods. In this original and insightful study, Sebastian Mitchell demonstrates how literary utopias are often as much about the past as they are about the present and the future. Utopia and Its Discontents concludes by arguing against the idea that the utopian has been eclipsed by the dystopian in contemporary culture. Topics covered include: - Early political and philosophical authors, such as Plato and Thomas More - Literary works, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - Speculative-fiction writers such as H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood - Ecological and feminist texts by Ernest Callenbach, Ursula Le Guin and Marge Piercy - Twenty-first century utopianism This is an essential study for scholars and students of utopian literature.

Plato's Progeny

Author : Melissa Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472502299
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Progeny written by Melissa Lane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the heart of postmodern critiques of the very idea of metaphysics and politics. Plato's Progeny begins with an account of modern responses to the trial of Socrates and the controversial question of Socrates' relation to Plato. At its centre are two chapters exploring the idea of Platonic origins in and for philosophy, and of Platonic foundations for philosophical politics. Exploring unfamiliar as well as familiar invocations of Plato, Melissa Lane argues that twentieth-century ideological battles have obscured the importance of Socratic individualism, the nature of Platonic ethics, and the value of Platonic politics. Succinct and clearly written, this is an ideal guide for everyone interested in the way philosophers are still writing footnotes to Plato.