Ideal And Culture Of Knowledge In Plato

Author : Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel Stiftung. Tagung
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 3515083375

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Ideal and Culture of Knowledge in Plato by Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel Stiftung. Tagung Pdf

The volume collects the contributions to an international conference held at the University of Frankfurt on the relationship between epistemic practices (culture of knowledge) and the concept of knowledge (ideal of knowledge) in Plato. For Plato, both aspects of knowledge were not only of equal importance, he was also well aware of their interdependence, taking into account that no philosopher has yet reached the epistemic level of knowledge. His acknowledgement of this interdependence is, as the papers of this volume show, further counter-evidence against the traditional reading that attributes to Plato a two-worlds-view which tries to keep ordinary belief and philosophical knowledge ontologically distinct. The contributions include essays from both ancient philosophers and ancient historians. Topics of the essays are e.g. the conception of education in the "Republic", the epistemic ascent in the "Symposion", the knowledge of knowledge in the "Charmides", the role of perception in the "Theaetetus" and the sophistic environment of Plato.

Author : Catherine Rowett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192540928

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Knowledge and Truth in Plato by Catherine Rowett Pdf

Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that " is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence. Instead Rowett argues that Plato was replacing the failed methods of Socrates, including his attempt to find a definition or single common factor, and that he replaced those methods with methods derived from geometry, including methods that involve inference from shadows to their originals (a method which Rowett calls "). As a result we should see that Plato is presenting the knowledge that is acquired as non-propositional and pictorial in nature, and that it is to be identified not with knowledge of facts nor of objects, but of types qua types-types that stand to the tokens that are used in our enquiry as original to shadow. The book includes detailed studies of the Meno, Republic and Theaetetus, and argues that the insights that Plato brings about the nature of conceptual knowledge, its importance in underpinning all other activities, and about the notion of truth as it applies to conceptual competence, are significant and should be taken seriously as a corrective to areas in which current analytic philosophy has lost its way.

Author : Horace William Brindley Joseph
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038930363

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Knowledge and the Good in Plato's Republic by Horace William Brindley Joseph Pdf

This short study was written in 1925 as part of the course of lectures on Plato's Republic.

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191579226

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Plato: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas Pdf

This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems in a variety of ways, rather than a philosopher with a fully worked-out system. It includes a brief account of Plato's life and the various interpretations that have been drawn from the sparse remains of information. It stresses the importance of the founding of the Academy and the conception of philosophy as a subject. Julia Annas discusses Plato's style of writing: his use of the dialogue form, his use of what we today call fiction, and his philosophical transformation of myths. She also looks at his discussions of love and philosophy, his attitude to women, and to homosexual love, explores Plato's claim that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and touches on his arguments for the immortality of the soul and his ideas about the nature of the universe. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Douglas Cairns
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748631889

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Pursuing the Good by Douglas Cairns Pdf

This volume, the fourth in the Edinburgh Leventis Studies series, comprises a selection of papers from the conference held in Edinburgh March 2005 in conjunction with Professor Terry Penner's tenure of the A. G. Leventis Visiting Research Chair in Greek. It brings together contributions from leading Plato scholars from Britain, Europe and North America on a closely defined topic central to Plato's thought and to Ancient Philosophy--Plato's Form of the Good. The importance of the collection lies in the combination and presentation in one place of a range of different approaches to the good in Plato's Republic, and different solutions to the problems posed and proposed by these approaches. The two central issues, which form an underlying thread throughout the collection, are: first whether Plato's Republic is centred on what is good for individual humans, or on some quasi-moral good; and secondly, what the Form of the Good is. Pursuing the Good goes beyond recent studies in the field, and will appeal to classicists and philosophers alike. To the advanced student, it represents a wide-ranging introduction to central issues of Plato's philosophy; for the academic it will provide stimulus through antithetical and controversial solutions to questions old and new.

Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521859476

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Plato: Meno and Phaedo by David Sedley Pdf

Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. Together they illustrate the birth of Platonic philosophy from Plato's reflections on Socrates' life and doctrines. This edition offers new and accessible translations of both works, together with a thorough introduction that explains the arguments of the two dialogues and their place in Plato's thought.

Author : George Boys-Stones,Dimitri El Murr,Christopher Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107434974

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The Platonic Art of Philosophy by George Boys-Stones,Dimitri El Murr,Christopher Gill Pdf

This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialogues; the function of myth (especially the Atlantis myth); Plato's Socratic heritage, especially as played out in his discussions of psychology; and his views of truth and being. Prominent among the dialogues discussed are Euthydemus, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Theaetetus, Timaeus, Sophist and Laws.

Author : Richard Seaford,John Wilkins,Matthew Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191083037

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Selfhood and the Soul by Richard Seaford,John Wilkins,Matthew Wright Pdf

Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of self and soul, understood in a broad sense - and, as in the work of the honorand himself, they are distinguished by a diversity of approach and subject matter, ranging widely across disciplinary boundaries to cover ancient philosophy, psychology, medical writing, and literary criticism. They can be read separately or together, taking the reader on a journey through topics and themes as varied as money, love, hope, pleasure, rage, free will, metempsychosis, Roman imperialism, cookery, and the Underworld, yet all committed to examining central issues about the experience of being a person and the question of how best to live. The international line-up of contributors includes many established figures in the disciplines of classical literature, ancient philosophy, and ancient medicine, as well as several younger scholars. All have been inspired by Christopher Gill's contributions to scholarly research in these fields and their collective work aspires to honour through imitation his remarkable combination of range with focus.

Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307378194

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Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein Pdf

Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.

Author : Werner Jaeger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195364910

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Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger Pdf

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."

Author : Horace William Brindley Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598839291

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Knowledge and the Good in Plato's Republic by Horace William Brindley Joseph Pdf

Author : Christopher Gill
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198152682

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The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought by Christopher Gill Pdf

Christopher Gill offers a wide-ranging and original account of what is new and distinctive in Hellenistic and Roman ideas about selfhood and personality. He focuses upon Stoic and Epicurean philosophy and its relationship to earlier Greek thought (especially Plato) and comtemporary literature.

Author : John Wild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSC:32106000023934

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Plato's Theory of Man by John Wild Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781775413660

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The Republic by Plato Pdf

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.

Author : Werner Jaeger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199878659

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Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger Pdf

Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the archaic and classical epochs, ending with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second and third volumes of the work deal with the intellectual history of ancient Greece in the Age of Plato, the 4th century B.C.--the age in which Greece lost everything that is valued in this world--state, power, liberty--but still clung to the concept of paideia. As its last great poet, Menander summarized the primary role of this ideal in Greek culture when he said: "The possession which no one can take away from man is paideia."