New Essays On Plato

Author : Renford Bambrough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136236372

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New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato) by Renford Bambrough Pdf

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato’s indictment of mathematicians.

Author : Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781910589557

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New Essays on Plato by Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Pdf

New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher. The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to the Laws and includes discussions of topics in ethics, political theory, psychology, epistemology, ontology, physics and metaphysics, and ancient literary criticism. The contributions by an international team of scholars represent a spectrum of diverse traditions and approaches, and offer new solutions to a selection of specific problems. Themes include the Happiness and Nature of the Philosopher-Kings, Law and Justice, the Tripartition of the Soul, Appearance and Belief, Conditions of Recognition, Ousia or What Something Is, the Reality of Change and Changelessness, Time and Eternity, and Aristotle on Plato.

Author : Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:300178744

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New Essays on Plato and Aristotle by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe Pdf

Author : Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : Produced for the C.A.P.P. by the University of Calgary Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039520544

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New Essays on Plato by Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy Pdf

Essays on Timaeus, Parmenides, Philebus, & other dialogues are included here. Plato's theory of justice, his accusation against poetry, the third man argument, & the theory of relations are discussed, along with other topics. Contents: Plato & Pericles on Freedom & Politics. The Craft of Justice. Plato's Greatest Accusation against Poetry. Belief, Knowledge & Learning in Plato's Middle Dialogues. Plato's Timaeus. Mass Terms, Sortal Terms, & Identity through Time in the Phenomenal World. Timaeus 48e-52d & the Third Man Argument. Plato's Parmenides Theory of Relations. Philebus 55c-62a & Revisionism. Knowledge in Philebus 55c-62a: A Response.

Author : Renford Bambrough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:954524100

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New Essays on Plato and Aristotle by Renford Bambrough Pdf

Author : Franco Trabattoni
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789462700598

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Essays on Plato’s Epistemology by Franco Trabattoni Pdf

An Innovating approach to Plato’s philosophy Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato’s Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato’s philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato’s philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical and an anti-metaphysical approach. This book, continuing a line of thought that is nowadays strongly present in the secondary literature – and also followed by the author in over thirty years of research –, maintains that a third way of thinking is required. Against the widespread view that an anti-dogmatic philosophy must go together with an anti-metaphysical stance, Trabattoni shows that for Plato, on the contrary, a sober and reasonable assessment of both the powers and limits of human reason relies on a proper metaphysical outlook.

Author : Heather Reid,Mark Ralkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942495285

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Plato at Syracuse by Heather Reid,Mark Ralkowski Pdf

The goal of this project is to understand Plato's involvement with Syracuse and Southern Italy in a multidisciplinary way and produce a volume which combines a new translation of the Seventh Letter with original essays from scholars of varying disciplines. Essay themes include Historical Context, Philosophical Concepts, Political Context, and Philosophical Reception.

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1914535251

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Reason and Necessity by M. R. Wright Pdf

Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.

Author : John P. Anton,Anthony Preus
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791495049

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Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III by John P. Anton,Anthony Preus Pdf

The Plato who emerges from these essays is the seminal thinker, the profound philosopher, the master of dialectic who offers, together with his insights into reality and human values, a systematically developed set of powerful devices for the articulation and defence of his ideas. In each case the discussion unfolds not as advocacy of Platonic doctrines but as critical assessment of argument, and is meant as judicious explication of the logical form of significant theses often believed, during centuries of Platonic commentary, to be cornerstones of a monumental speculative system. It demonstrates a shared and strikingly high regard for Plato as a major thinker in the western philosophical tradition, a recognition that the dialogues he wrote continue to exert influence as well as attract theoretical attention. Taken together with the material on Plato in Volume II, Volume III displays a definite continuity in direction, scope, and quality, strengthening the conviction that Platonic scholarship has entered a new and different phase and has consolidated the approach that this new movement introduced.

Author : Brian P. Hendley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438406459

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Plato, Time, and Education by Brian P. Hendley Pdf

This collection of original essays pays tribute to the man by exploring topics that have interested him through a long and productive career. Plato's mathematical imagery, his theory of perception, the role of engineering techne in the origin of Greek science, time and free will in Kant, Whitehead as teacher of teachers, mapping friendships, Kierkegaard and the necessity of forgery. These and other topics are given fresh treatments meant to stimulate further philosophical thinking in the spirit of Brumbaugh himself.

Author : Roger A. Shiner,John King-Farlow
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : [Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy]
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822011624038

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New Essays on Plato and the Pre-Socratics by Roger A. Shiner,John King-Farlow Pdf

Author : J. L. Ackrill
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199244966

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Essays on Plato and Aristotle by J. L. Ackrill Pdf

J. L. Ackrill's work on Plato and Aristotle has had a considerable influence upon ancient philosophical studies in the late twentieth century. In his writings the rigour and clarity of contemporary analytical philosophy are brought to bear upon ancient thought; in many cases he has providedthe first analytic treatment of a key issue. Gathered now in this volume are the best of Ackrill's essays on the two greatest philosophers of antiquity. Here he examines a wide range of texts and topics -- from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics -- which continue to be the focus ofdebate today.

Author : Margaret Anne Cameron,Robert Stainton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198732495

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Linguistic Content by Margaret Anne Cameron,Robert Stainton Pdf

This volume explores the rich history of philosophy of language in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle to the twentieth century. A team of leading experts focus in particular on key metaphysical debates about linguistic content, including questions of ontological status and metaphysical grounding.

Author : Edward Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981067213

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Essays on Plato by Edward Butler Pdf

A collection of new and previously published essays offering an interpretation of Plato at once new and in harmony with the best philosophical traditions of antiquity.

Author : Christoph Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501503344

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Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" Lambda – New Essays by Christoph Horn Pdf

The treatise known as book Lambda of Aristotle’s Metaphysics has become one of the most debated issues of recent scholarship. Aristotle adresses here fundamental questions of his theory of substance, his idea of causes and principles, and his concept of motions. Furthermore, the importance of the text is due to the fact that it contains an outline of what was traditionally understood as Aristotle’s theology.