Fraught Decisions In Plato And Shakespeare

Author : Dianne Rothleder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786616289

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Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare by Dianne Rothleder Pdf

In the reincarnation myth in Book X of Plato’s Republic, the unnamed first soul, who has lived a good life and has been rewarded in the afterlife, chooses a new life and fate, and chooses catastrophically badly. He finds himself fated to eat his own children. Despite being warned to blame only himself, he wails and blames anything and everything else in his conviction that his fate is undeserved. Though he should not be shocked because he has made this choice himself, he is incredulous because he has completely misunderstood the nature of his choice. Starting with Plato’s myth, this book looks at the errors this soul has made and considers these errors through both the Republic and a series of paired Shakespeare plays. Reading the Republic along with Othello and The Comedy of Errors, the first section focuses on the misreading of comedy and tragedy in the life of the individual; returning to the Republic and using The Merchant of Venice and Pericles, Part II focuses on the broadened context of the misuse of political and economic forces; returning again to the Republic and reading Timon of Athens and Measure for Measure, Part III focuses on the broadest context, the misunderstanding of the inseparability of birth and infinite debt. The hope of the text, and the hope of human life, is to help us avoid choosing lives that devour what we most love.

Author : John Russon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253057693

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Politics, Money, and Persuasion by John Russon Pdf

In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon, Plato's work is about the distinctive nature of what it is to be a human being and, correspondingly, what is distinctive about the nature of human society. Russon focuses on the realities of our everyday experience to come to profoundly insightful assessments of our human realities: the nature of the city, the nature of knowledge, and the nature of human psychology. Russon's argument concentrates on the ambivalence of logos, which includes reflections on politics and philosophy and their place in human life, how humans have shaped the environment, our interactions with money, the economy, and the pursuit of the good in social and political systems. Politics, Money, and Persuasion offers a deeply personal but also practical kind of philosophical reading of Plato's classic text. It emphasizes the tight connection between the life of city and the life of the soul, demonstrating both the crucial role that human cognitive excellence and psychological health play in political and social life.

Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004526631

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Unphenomenal Shakespeare by Julián Jiménez Heffernan Pdf

The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket jammed with intersubjectivity, embodiment, immediacy, representation. If you feel like passing, read this book.

Author : Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538153369

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Remains of a Self by Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen Pdf

From the twentieth century into the twenty-first, psychoanalysis and deconstruction have challenged, and continue to challenge, our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. This book argues that taking forward this heritage we must retrace the subject and the self as undergoing perpetual auto-deconstruction, through the lens of solitude.

Author : Nathan Bell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786614209

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Refugees by Nathan Bell Pdf

In Refugees, Nathan Bell argues for nothing less than a new concept of the political: that societies (liberal or not, in the mode of the sovereign state or some other form) embrace an ethos of responsibility for others, where the right to seek asylum becomes foundational for politics itself.

Author : Shannon M. Mussett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786612472

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Entropic Philosophy by Shannon M. Mussett Pdf

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death.

Author : Barbara L. Parker
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0874138612

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Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome by Barbara L. Parker Pdf

This study contends that Plato's theory of constitutional decline provides the philosophical core of Shakespeare's Roman works; that Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra form a "Platonic" tetralogy collectively spanning the stages of timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyrrany; that this decline is prefigured and encapsulated in Titus Andronicus; and that all five works are oblique commentaries on England's political milieu. --book jacket.

Author : William Francis C. Wigston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : English literature
ISBN : ONB:+Z31248100X

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A New Study of Shakespeare by William Francis C. Wigston Pdf

Author : Farhang Zabeeh
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616146535

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Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep by Farhang Zabeeh Pdf

Offers many fresh insights that will give even longtime readers of Shakespeare a new appreciation of the great master. Scholars have long debated the extent of Shakespeare's education. Although his friend and admirer Ben Jonson said of him, "thou hadst small Latine and lesse Greek," Shakespeare's plays reveal a wide familiarity with literary and philosophical works from the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and the classical age. Philosopher Farhang Zabeeh delves into this fascinating topic in this detailed study of the philosophical influences evident in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Readers will be surprised and delighted to discover in Shakespeare unmistakable echoes of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, Montaigne, and other famous thinkers. In one chapter, the author makes a convincing case that one of the bard's most famous comic characters, John Falstaff, is a parody of Socrates. In other chapters, he demonstrates indirect references to Plato in Shakespearean passages concerning appearance versus reality, as well as the influence of Aristotle's ethics. Other common philosophical themes evident in the plays concern the nature of time, subjectivity versus objectivity, and political and moral values.

Author : Danijela Kambaskovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401790727

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Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment by Danijela Kambaskovic Pdf

This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this question fits into a broader framework in the medieval and early modern period. Concepts such as gender and society, morality, sexuality, theological precepts and medical knowledge are a part of this broader framework. This discussion of ideas draws from over two thousand years of Western thought: from Plato in the fifth century BC and the fourth century Byzantine dialogues on the soul, to the philosophical and medical writings of the early 1700s. There are four sections to this book: each section is based on where the authors have found a conjunction between the body and mind/soul. The work begins with a section on text and self-perception, which focuses on creative output from the period. The second conjunction is human emotions which are described in their social contexts. The third is sex, where the human body and mind are traditionally believed to meet. The fourth section, Material Souls, engages with bodies and other material aspects of existence perceived, studied or utilised as material signs of emotional and spiritual activity.

Author : John Vyvyan
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780856834080

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Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty by John Vyvyan Pdf

Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and All’s Well That Ends Well, the heroines bring to life the idea of love as the force that is awakened in the world by beauty which then leads the soul to perfection. Vyvyan believes that for Shakespeare, love was preeminent over human ideas of justice, that self-discovery was a supreme human experience, and that breaking faith with the ideal—as Agamemnon, Cressida, and Hector all do in Troilus and Cressida —sowed the seeds of tragedy. The author’s recognition of Shakespeare's use of allegory enables him to make sense of certain developments in these plays that seem weak or absurd from the psychological standpoint. He does not suggest that Shakespeare’s philosophy is the most important thing about his plays; it is simply one thing about them that ought to be known. The recognition of this philosophy enhances enjoyment of the plays, giving them a new dimension and richness. This edition contains a list of the author’s Shakespearean references and an enhanced index.

Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429675942

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Limited Shakespeare by Julián Jiménez Heffernan Pdf

Shakespeare’s poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of limits in the sonnets and in five of his plays, this book seeks not only to highlight the poet’s steadfast commitment to critical rationality. It also aims to plead a case of hermeneutic continence. Present-day appraisals of Shakespeare’s world-making and meaning-projecting potential are often overruled by a neo-romantic and phenomenological celebration of plenty. This pre-critical tendency unwittingly obtains epistemic legitimation from philosophical quarters inspired by Alain Badiou’s derisive rejection of "the pathos of finitude". But finitude is much more than a modish, neo-existentialist, watchword. It is what is left of ontology when reason is done. And cool reason was already at work before Kant. In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to experience (The Tempest), to love (the Sonnets), to time (Macbeth), to the world (Hamlet) and to knowledge (Othello), Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude aims to underscore the deeply mediated dimension of Shakespearean experience, always over-determined by the twin forces of contingency and textual determinism, and his meta-rational and virtually ironic taste for irrational, accidental, and error-driven limits (bonds, bounds, deaths).

Author : Rod Jenks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498592048

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Plato on the Unity of the Virtues by Rod Jenks Pdf

In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable.

Author : David Apolloni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739144847

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The Self-predication Assumption in Plato by David Apolloni Pdf

This book defends the view that a mysterious plural phrase at Phaedo 74 shows that the Self-Predication Assumptionthe idea that each Form is supposed to have the very characteristic it is supposed to instantiateis both plausible and leads to no infinite regress of Forms. It is an essential read for scholars, specialists and students with an interes

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801469176

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From Plato to Platonism by Lloyd P. Gerson Pdf

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients are correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato's dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of "anti-naturalism." Gerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato—Plato’s own Platonism, so to speak—was produced out of a matrix he calls "Ur-Platonism." According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five "antis" that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato’s Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five "antis." It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics. In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as "the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."