Plato S Cosmology And Its Ethical Dimensions

Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : 42,8 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 : Francis MacDonald Cornford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317830351

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Plato's Cosmology by Francis MacDonald Cornford Pdf

This is Volume IV of ten on a series of Ancient Philosophy. Originally published in 1937, this text offers Plato's 'Timaeus' translated with a running commentary discussing each problem of interpretation.

Author : Bram Demulder
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Plato,Francis M. Cornford
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872203867

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Plato's Cosmology by Plato,Francis M. Cornford Pdf

A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.

Author : Hyun-Ah Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : 48,6 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 : Joseph Packer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972612

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One Book, The Whole Universe by Richard D. Mohr Pdf

The much-anticipated anthology on Plato'sTimaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos-examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September of 2007.To this day, Plato's Timaeus grounds the form of ethical and political thinking called Natural Law-the view that there are norms in nature that provide the patterns for our actions and ground the objectivity of human values. Beyond the intellectual content of the dialogue's core, its literary frame is also the source of the myth of Atlantis, giving the West the concept of the "e;lost world."e;

Author : David J. Yount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Theokritos Kouremenos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Victor Caston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198825128

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 54 by Victor Caston Pdf

"Volume LIV contains: an article on the equal sticks argument for Forms in Plato's Phaedo; an article on why Plato abandoned the Socratic method; and another on the cognition of the world soul in the Timaeus; two articles on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one on the prohibition against 'kind-crossing', the other on the requirements for a middle term's being an explanatory cause; an article on the mixture of elemental qualities in Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption 2. 7, and another on First Philosophy in Metaphysics Lambda; and an article on Alexander of Aphrodisias' use of dialectical method in his treatises On Fate and On Providence"--

Author : George Boys-Stones,Dimitri El Murr,Christopher Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.