Plato S Cosmology And It S Ethical Dimensions

Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320734

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Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions by Gabriela Roxana Carone Pdf

Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly symbiotic relation between the cosmic and human sphere. It is argued that in his late period Plato presents a picture of an organic universe, endowed with structure and intrinsic value, which both urges our respect and calls for our responsible intervention. Humans are thus seen as citizens of a university that can provide a context for their flourishing even in the absence of good political institutions. The book sheds light on many intricate metaphysical issues in late Plato and brings out the close connections between his cosmology and the development of his ethics.

Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cosmology, Ancient
ISBN : 1139810278

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Plato's Cosmology and It's Ethical Dimensions by Gabriela Roxana Carone Pdf

Author : Bram Demulder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789462703292

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Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics by Bram Demulder Pdf

A groundbreaking and wide-ranging presentation of Plutarch’s ethics based on the cosmological foundation of his ethical thought Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ethics on his particular interpretation of Plato’s cosmology: our quest for the good life should start by considering the good cosmos in which we live. The practical consequences of this cosmological foundation permeate various domains of Greco-Roman life: the musician, the organiser of a drinking party, and the politician should all be guided by cosmology. After exploring these domains, this book offers in-depth interpretations of two works which can only be fully understood by paying attention to cosmological aspects: Dialogue on Love and On Tranquillity of Mind.

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107183278

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Cosmology and Politics in Plato's Later Works by Dominic J. O'Meara Pdf

This book relates Plato's cosmology to his political philosophy by means of new interpretations of his Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws.

Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107320116

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Plato's Natural Philosophy by Thomas Kjeller Johansen Pdf

Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.

Author : Theokritos Kouremenos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110601862

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Plato’s forms, mathematics and astronomy by Theokritos Kouremenos Pdf

Plato’s view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mathematics and philosophy as Plato conceived them by proposing that in his view, although it is philosophy that came up with the concept of beings, which he calls forms, and highlighted their importance, first to natural philosophy and then to ethics, the things that do qualify as beings are inchoately revealed by mathematics as the raw materials that must be further processed by philosophy (mathematicians, to use Plato’s simile in the Euthedemus, do not invent the theorems they prove but discover beings and, like hunters who must hand over what they catch to chefs if it is going to turn into something useful, they must hand over their discoveries to philosophers). Even those forms that do not bear names of mathematical objects, such as the famous forms of beauty and goodness, are in fact forms of mathematical objects. The first chapter is an attempt to defend this thesis. The second argues that for Plato philosophy’s crucial task of investigating the exfoliation of the forms into the sensible world, including the sphere of human private and public life, is already foreshadowed in one of its branches, astronomy.

Author : Joseph Packer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498513029

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Alien Life and Human Purpose by Joseph Packer Pdf

Alien Life and Human Purpose provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or unity, to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Packer contends that unity had a complimentary mythic function and continues to shape modern social values. This work will be of interest to rhetoricians, philosophers, historians, and theologists.

Author : Hyun-Ah Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317316985

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The Renaissance Ethics of Music by Hyun-Ah Kim Pdf

In early modern Europe, music – particularly singing – was the arena where body and soul came together, embodied in the notion of musica humana. Kim uses this concept to examine the framework within which music and song were used to promote moral education and addresses Renaissance ideas of religion, education and music.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004504691

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Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition by Anonim Pdf

This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009329989

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Plato's Moral Realism by Lloyd P. Gerson Pdf

Demonstrates that Plato's ethics rests upon a metaphysical foundation, the Idea of the Good, the first principle of all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004437081

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Plato’s Timaeus by Anonim Pdf

Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form of the work to the ontology of sense perception and the status of medicine in Timaeus' account. Although informed by a commitment to methodological diversity, the collection as a whole forms an organic unity, opening fresh perspectives on widely read passages, while shedding new light on less frequently discussed topics. The volume thus provides a valuable resource for students and researchers at all levels, whether their interest bears on the Timaeus as a whole or on a particular passage.

Author : David J. Yount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474298445

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Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics by David J. Yount Pdf

This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate experience that answers the most significant philosophical questions, David J. Yount provides an extended analysis of why we should interpret both philosophers as mystics. The book then moves on to demonstrate that both philosophers share a belief in non-discursive knowledge and the methods to attain it, including dialectic and recollection, and shows that they do not essentially differ on any significant views on ethics. Making extensive use of primary and secondary sources, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology and Ethics shows the similarities between the thought of these two philosophers on a variety of philosophical questions, such as meditation, divination, wisdom, knowledge, truth, happiness and love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004299702

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Literary Forms of Argument in Early China by Anonim Pdf

In Literary Forms of Argument in Early China, Gentz and Meyer explore a new analytical approach to the study of written thinking by focusing on the argumentative function of literary patterns in early Chinese texts.

Author : Christopher Bobonich,Pierre Destrée
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004156708

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Akrasia in Greek Philosophy by Christopher Bobonich,Pierre Destrée Pdf

The 13 contributions of this collective offer new and challenging ways of reading well-known and more neglected texts on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Plotinus).

Author : Andrew J. Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317421887

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Flow and Flux in Plato’s Philosophy by Andrew J. Mason Pdf

In this bold new study, Andrew J. Mason seeks both to shed light on the key issue of flux in Plato’s work, and to show that there is also in Plato a notion of flow that needs to be distinguished from flux. Mason brings out the importance of this hitherto neglected distinction, and proposes on its basis a new way of understanding the development of Plato’s thought. The opposition between the ‘being’ of Forms and the ‘becoming’ or ‘flux’ of sensibles has been fundamental to the understanding of Plato from Aristotle to the present day. One key concern of this volume is to clarify which kinds or levels of flux Plato accepts in sensibles. In addition, Mason argues that this traditional approach is unsatisfactory, as it leaves out the important notion of flow. Unlike flux, flow is a kind of motion that does not entail intrinsic change. It is also not restricted to the sensible, but covers motions of soul as well, including the circular motion of nous (intelligence) that is crucial in Plato’s later thought, particularly his cosmology. In short, flow is not incompatible with ‘being’, and in this study Plato’s development is presented, largely, as his arrival at this view, in correction of his earlier conflation of flux and flow in establishing the dichotomy between being and becoming. Mason’s study offers fresh insights into many dialogues and difficult passages in Plato’s oeuvre, and situates Plato’s conception and usage of ‘flow’ and ‘flux’ in relation to earlier usage in the Greek poetic tradition and the Presocratic thinkers, particularly Heraclitus. The first study of its kind, Flow and Flux uncovers dimensions of Plato’s thinking that may reshape the way his philosophy is understood.