Plato S Myths

Author : Catalin Partenie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 110740407X

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Plato's Myths by Catalin Partenie Pdf

In archaic societies myths were believed to tell true stories - stories about the ultimate origin of reality. For us, on the contrary, the term 'myth' denotes a false belief. Between the archaic notion of myth and ours stands Plato's. This volume is a collection of ten studies by eminent scholars that focus on the ways in which some of Plato's most famous myths are interwoven with his philosophy. The myths discussed include the eschatological myths of the Gorgias, the Phaedo, the Republic and Laws 10, the central myths of the Phaedrus and the Statesman, and the so-called myth of the Noble Lie from the Republic. The mythical character of the Timaeus cosmology is also amply discussed. The volume also contains seventeen rare Renaissance illustrations of Platonic myths. The contributors argue that in Plato myth and philosophy are tightly bound together, despite Plato's occasional claim that they are opposed modes of discourse.

Author : Catherine Collobert,Pierre Destrée,Francisco J. Gonzalez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004218666

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Plato and Myth by Catherine Collobert,Pierre Destrée,Francisco J. Gonzalez Pdf

Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.

Author : Daniel S. Werner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107021280

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Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus by Daniel S. Werner Pdf

Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.

Author : Plato,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199552559

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Selected Myths by Plato, Pdf

This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths, from eight of Plato's dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They include the famous myth of the cave from Republic as well as 'The Judgement of Souls' and 'The Birth of Love'. Each myth is a self-contained story, prefaced by a short explanatory note, while the introduction considers Plato's use of myth and imagery.

Author : Tae-Yeoun Keum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674984646

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Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by Tae-Yeoun Keum Pdf

An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226075192

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Plato the Myth Maker by Luc Brisson Pdf

We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.

Author : Omid Tofighian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137580443

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Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues by Omid Tofighian Pdf

This book rethinks Plato’s creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently depending on cultural practice, religious context or literary tradition, and this interdisciplinary study merges new perspectives in Plato studies with recent scholarship and theories pertaining to myth. Significant overlaps exist between prominent modern theories of myth and attitudes and approaches in studies of Plato’s myths. Considering recent developments in myth studies, this book asks new questions about the evaluation of myth in Plato. Its appreciation of the historical conditions shaping and directing the study of Plato’s myths opens deeper philosophical questions about the relationship between philosophy and myth and the relevance of myth studies to philosophical debates. It also extends the discussion to address philosophical questions and perspectives on the distinction between argument and narrative.

Author : Kathryn A. Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139427524

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Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato by Kathryn A. Morgan Pdf

This book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is found to be more extensive and programmatic than has been recognized. The story of philosophy's relationship with myth is that of its relationship with literary and social convention. The intellectuals studied here wanted to reformulate popular ideas about cultural authority and they achieved this goal by manipulating myth. Their self-conscious use of myth creates a self-reflective philosophic sensibility and draws attention to problems inherent in different modes of linguistic representation. Much of the reception of Greek philosophy stigmatizes myth as 'irrational'. Such an approach ignores the important role played by myth in Greek philosophy, not just as a foil but as a mode of philosophical thought. The case studies in this book reveal myth deployed as a result of methodological reflection, and as a manifestation of philosophical concerns.

Author : Tae-Yeoun Keum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674250161

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Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought by Tae-Yeoun Keum Pdf

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities Winner of the Istvan Hont Book Prize An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.

Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1107407303

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Myths of the Underworld Journey by Radcliffe G. Edmonds, III Pdf

Plato, Aristophanes, and the creators of the "Orphic" gold tablets employ the traditional tale of a journey to the realm of the dead to redefine, within the mythic narrative, the boundaries of their societies. Rather than being the relics of a faded ritual tradition or the products of Orphic influence, these myths can only reveal their meanings through this detailed analysis of the specific ways in which each author makes use of the tradition.

Author : Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780521839631

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The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic by Giovanni R. F. Ferrari Pdf

This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Cambridge Platonists
ISBN : UVA:X000304763

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The Myths of Plato by Plato Pdf

Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : St Augustine PressInc
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1587316374

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The Platonic Myths by Josef Pieper Pdf

Pieper distinguishes between Platonic stories in which Plato crystallizes mythical fragments from the mere stories which contain them, and Platonic myths, in which he purifies the proper mythical elements, freeing them of the non-mythical elements which tend to obscure them. Pieper succeeds in establishing the case for a truth, found particularly in the eschatological myths, that is not reducible to the rational truth normally sought by philosophers. While it is not purely rational truth, it is not inferior. It is different. It stems from tradition, which reaches back to the ultimate beginnings of man's existence -- back into our pre-history and to events of which, naturally, we have no experience. The only access we have to this truth is through `hearing' (ex akoes), which is not dependent on mere `hearsay,' but which, in Pieper's interpretation, reflects the handing on, in stories, of what the gods first communicated to man about the creation of the world and about the afterlife. These truths are to be found -- long before the New Testament (or even the Old Testament) -- in the myths of a variety of civilizations and give evidence of an extraordinary consensus: that there was a creating hand; that primeval man incurred guilt in the eyes of the gods; that he could be saved; that there is an afterlife in which man is rewarded or punished; that he can undergo a kind of purgatory for lesser offenses; and that in the afterlife he can dwell with the gods. Cover design: Bruce Fingerhut; cover image: "Illuminated hole," ©PixAchi, Shutterstock

Author : Catherine Collobert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 6613591610

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Plato and Myth by Catherine Collobert Pdf

Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato's dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Lebooks Editora
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9786558943662

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THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE - Plato by Plato Pdf

The work " The Allegory of the Cave," also known as the Cave Allegory or Cave Parable, is an extremely intelligent allegory with a philosophical and pedagogical intent, written by the Greek philosopher Plato. It is found in the work "The Republic" and aims to exemplify how human beings can free themselves from the condition of darkness that imprisons them through the light of truth. It is a timeless text whose message fits perfectly into contemporary times when sectarian ideologies still permeate many societies. Furthermore, reading "The Allegory of the Cave" allows for a beneficial reflection by rescuing and presenting important philosophical values to readers.