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MisReading Plato

Author : Matthew Clemente,Bryan J. Cocchiara,William J. Hendel
Publisher : Psychology and the Other
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : 1032062681

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MisReading Plato by Matthew Clemente,Bryan J. Cocchiara,William J. Hendel Pdf

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition. By approaching the dialogue anew, as if for the first time, the book creates new intellectual pathways by opening the conversation to a clash of ideas. The contributors offer nuanced, nontraditional readings of Plato, readings that not only analyze but also build on the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary continental thought more broadly. It addresses a major gap in the literature caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist. Psychologists and scholars in philosophy, psychoanalysis, Platonic thought, and other humanities-related disciplines will find this new approach to Plato refreshing, accessible, and uniquely innovative.

Plato and Heidegger

Author : Francisco J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271074337

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Plato and Heidegger by Francisco J. Gonzalez Pdf

In a critique of Heidegger that respects his path of thinking, Francisco Gonzalez looks at the ways in which Heidegger engaged with Plato’s thought over the course of his career and concludes that, owing to intrinsic requirements of Heidegger’s own philosophy, he missed an opportunity to conduct a real dialogue with Plato that would have been philosophically fruitful for us all. Examining in detail early texts of Heidegger’s reading of Plato that have only recently come to light, Gonzalez, in parts 1 and 2, shows there to be certain affinities between Heidegger’s and Plato’s thought that were obscured in his 1942 essay “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” on which scholars have exclusively relied in interpreting what Heidegger had to say about Plato. This more nuanced reading, in turn, helps Gonzalez provide in part 3 an account of Heidegger’s later writings that highlights the ways in which Heidegger, in repudiating the kind of metaphysics he associated with Plato, took a direction away from dialectic and dialogue that left him unable to pursue those affinities that could have enriched Heidegger’s own philosophy as well as Plato’s. “A genuine dialogue with Plato,” Gonzalez argues, “would have forced [Heidegger] to go in certain directions where he did not want to go and could not go without his own thinking undergoing a radical transformation.”

Plato and Postmodernism

Author : Steven Shankman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781606088098

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Plato and Postmodernism by Steven Shankman Pdf

An inquiry into the clash, or confluence, of the oldest and newest stream of Western philosophical tradition: Hellenic rationalism and its nemesis, poststructuralism. Ten superb scholars from several disciplines engage the ultimate issues of literary theory. An indispensable book. Complete with a comprehensive bibliography, index of names and index of subjects. Contributors: Harry Berger Jr. Page duBois David M. Halperin Djelal Kadir Linda Kintz Sharon Larisch Louis Orsini Steven Shankman Douglass H. Thomson Eugene Webb

Reading Plato's Theaetetus

Author : Timothy D. J. Chappell
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872207609

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Reading Plato's Theaetetus by Timothy D. J. Chappell Pdf

This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's aim in the Theaetetus is to further the cause of his own anti-empiricist theory of knowledge by testing -- and destroying -- a series of empiricist theories of knowledge.

Heidegger and Plato

Author : Catalin Partenie,Tom Rockmore
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810122338

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Heidegger and Plato by Catalin Partenie,Tom Rockmore Pdf

For Martin Heidegger the "fall" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger--and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of postmodern critiques of metaphysics. It is also, as the essays in this volume attest, highly complex, and possibly founded on a questionable understanding of Plato. As editors Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore remark, a simple way to describe Heidegger's reading of Plato might be to say that what began as an attempt to appropriate Plato (and through him a large portion of Western philosophy) finally ended in an estrangement from both Plato and Western philosophy. The authors of this volume consider Heidegger's thought in relation to Plato before and after the "Kehre" or turn. In doing so, they take up various central issues in Heidegger's Being and Time (1927) and thereafter, and the questions of hermeneutics, truth, and language. The result is a subtle and multifaceted reinterpretation of Heidegger's position in the tradition of philosophy, and of Plato's role in determining that position.

Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783487155425

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Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason by Harald Haarmann Pdf

Platon zählt zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen aller Zeiten. Er beeinflusste maßgeblich Profil und Kanon der westlichen Philosophie. Die Kritik am sogenannten Platonismus wurde kontinuierlich von den Schwierigkeiten gespeist, die die Interpretation der philosophischen Schriften Platons bereitet. Gemeinhin wird er als rein rationaler Philosoph gesehen. Ein Philosoph war er in der Tat, ebenso jedoch ein Experte in der Annäherung an das Nicht-Rationale, unter anderem in Form von Mythen. So wurde er auch als "Mythenerfinder" und "Mythologe" bezeichnet. Platon war ein Visionär, der es wagte, das Reich des Nicht-Rationalen auf systematische und disziplinierte Art zu erforschen. Insgesamt lässt sich Platons philosophisches Vorhaben als Streben nach einer umfassenden Sicht des organischen Ganzen klassifizieren. Der Ausdruck „Gestalt“ scheint die Ganzheit am ehesten zu beschreiben. Platon kann als prominentester und auch als letzter Repräsentant der antiken Philosophie angesehen werden, der die Entwicklung einer Gestalt-Philosophie anstrebte. Plato is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He decisively shaped the profile and canon of western philosophy. Criticism of what has become known as Platonism has been continuously nourished by the difficulties of interpreting this philosopher's writings. Plato is commonly viewed as a purely rational philosopher. A philosopher he was indeed, but Plato was also an expert in approaching the non-rational, in the form of mythology among others. Plato has been called a "mythmaker" and a "mythologist". Plato was a visionary who dared to explore the realm of the non-rational in a systematic and disciplined way. In an overall comparison, Plato's philosophical enterprise strives for a comprehensive perspective on the organic whole. The expression "Gestalt" seems to come closest to describing the wholeness. Plato may be considered to be the most prominent representative of classical philosophy to develop a Gestalt philosophy and also the last to do so in antiquity.

Plato and Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Robert Heinaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351910750

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Plato and Aristotle's Ethics by Robert Heinaman Pdf

This volume, emanating from the Fourth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, presents essays and comments by nine outstanding scholars of ancient philosophy, which examine the influence of Plato on the development of Aristotle's ethics. The essays focus on the role of pleasure in happiness and the good life (Christopher Taylor and Sarah Broadie), the irreducibility of ethical concepts to value-neutral concepts (Anthony Price and Sarah Broadie), the relation of virtue to happiness (Roger Crisp and Christopher Rowe, Terry Irwin and Sir Anthony Kenny), the role of the requirement of self-sufficiency in determining the content of happiness (John Cooper and Sir Anthony Kenny), and the question of whether the just man should be a participant in the political life of his city (Richard Kraut and Christopher Rowe).

The Laurel and the Olive

Author : Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110787832

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The Laurel and the Olive by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Pdf

A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.

Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens

Author : Hullin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491745670

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Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens by Hullin Pdf

Jewish Studies Athens. BUT BE CAREFUL THAT I DONT SOMEHOW DECEIVE YOU UNINTENTIONALLY (!!! ???) BY PROFFERRING AN ILLEGITIMATE ACCOUNTING OF THE CHILD/TOKOU. [Republic 507a] ************************************************************************************* Jerusalem. A Note from the Tanna Kamma: The laws regarding the release from vows hover in the air (having no Scriptural support). The laws of Shabbat; of the Festival Offerings; and acts of trespass; are like mountains suspended by a hair; for there are but scant Scriptural foundation for them but there are numerous halakhot for them. Civil cases; Temple services; the regulations concerning purity and contamination; and the forbidden sexual relations; all of these have true and firm Scriptural support. AND IT IS THESE {the ones with true and firm Scriptural support) WHICH ARE THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE TORAH [The last Paragraph of Chapter One of the Hagigah Mishna; found at 10a-i of the Art Scroll rendition (with some modifications). The passage is orchestrated by the Tanna Kamma.]

Springs of Western Civilization

Author : James A. Arieti
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498534802

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Springs of Western Civilization by James A. Arieti Pdf

This book explores how the Hebraic and classical traditions forming our Western heritage combined from about 300 BCE to 300 CE. James Arieti investigates the principal causes of the merger in the common model of God that developed in the Greek philosophical schools, along with its ethical implications, and the shared portrayal in biblical, rabbinic, and postclassical literature of the compassionate warm character that we recognize as a mentsh.

The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition

Author : Richard Graff,Arthur E. Walzer,Janet M. Atwill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780791484128

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The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition by Richard Graff,Arthur E. Walzer,Janet M. Atwill Pdf

The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy. Continuing the line of questioning begun in the 1980s, contributors examine the duality of a rhetorical canon in determining if past practice can make us more (or less) able to address contemporary concerns. Also examined is the role of tradition as a limiting or inspiring force, rhetoric as a discipline, rhetoric's contribution to interest in civic education and citizenship, and the possibilities digital media offer to scholars of rhetoric.

Revaluing Ethics

Author : Thomas W. Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791451429

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Revaluing Ethics by Thomas W. Smith Pdf

Challenges influential interpretations of Aristotelian ethical and political philosophy.

When Science Goes Wrong

Author : Consolmagno, Guy, SJ,Graney, Christopher M.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780809188253

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When Science Goes Wrong by Consolmagno, Guy, SJ,Graney, Christopher M. Pdf

The science/faith discussion is often hindered by a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and function of science. This misunderstand was made most evident, with tragic consequences, during the recent pandemic. The ways that science has gone wrong, and the underlying causes of how it goes wrong, will be illustrated here with a series of historical essays describing ideas about the universe, planet Earth, and the evolution of life that were all based on ideas that were reasonable…but ultimately wrong. Some are amusing in retrospect; others are tragic. Theology, philosophy, or even mathematics may lay claim to eternal truths, but in science our very cosmologies change. Just as the major religions have adapted in the face of changing cultural cosmologies, so too has science adapted in the face of challenging new observations and new ideas. Religions and science are strengthened by experiencing a shift in our assumptions; that’s where we find out what’s essential, and what is cultural baggage. Ultimately, the point of our science is not to come up with the “right answer.” Both as scientists and as human beings, we know that sometimes we learn the most by encountering ideas that challenge us. When we say, “I know that can’t be right; so, where did it go wrong?” we gain a greater insight into what we do believe, and what it really means.

Plato and the Body

Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438470818

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Plato and the Body by Coleen P. Zoller Pdf

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques. For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato’s metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace. “Zoller gives us a new way of going forward in Plato studies. Her reading of the Platonic conception of embodiment frees it from the negative associations of the past. Plato and the Body will radically shift the scholarly conversation. The book is truly an exhilarating read.” — Anne-Marie Schultz, author of Plato’s Socrates as Narrator: A Philosophical Muse

An American Idol

Author : Robert J. Loewenberg
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0819139564

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An American Idol by Robert J. Loewenberg Pdf

A collection of revised essays which appeared previously in various journals. Presents the thesis that "Jewhatred" is a philosophic question, founded in idolatry. Modern academic scholarship is historicist rather than philosophic, and "is therefore unprepared to consider the possibility that the hatred of Judaism may be a form of idol worship". Contends that American liberalism is grounded in the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson on freedom and that Emerson was an antisemite who understood that Judaism was an obstacle to unbridled freedom. also discusses Hitler's ideas in terms of his aspirations toward absolute freedom (which leads ultimately to self-annihilation), and Nazism as the ultimate form of idolatry, and their antisemitism stemming from Judaism's opposition to these goals.