Platonic Patterns

Author : Gerald A. Press,Mateo Duque
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350227248

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato by Gerald A. Press,Mateo Duque Pdf

This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy. It is organized into five parts illuminating Plato's life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues' literary features, the concepts and themes explored within them and Plato's reception via his influence on subsequent philosophers and the various interpretations of his work. This fully updated 2nd edition includes 19 newly commissioned entries on topics ranging across comedy, tragedy, Xenophon, metatheatre, gender, musical theory, animals, Orphism, political theory, religion, time, Hellenistic philosophy and post-Platonic ancient commentaries. It also features revisions to the majority of articles from the 1st edition, including 8 which have been completely re-written, and 12 which have had the references substantially revised. Reflecting the growing diversity of Plato scholarship across the world, this edition includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who enrich the field and provide students and scholars with a vital resource for study and reference.

Author : Gerald A. Press
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474250924

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato by Gerald A. Press Pdf

Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Western philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato provides a comprehensive and accessible study guide to Plato's thought. Written by a team of leading experts in the field of ancient philosophy, this companion covers five major areas; - Plato's life and his historical, philosophical and literary context - synopses of all the dialogues attributed to Plato - the most important features of the dialogues - the key themes and topics apparent in the dialogues - Plato's enduring influence and the various interpretative approaches applied to his thought throughout the history of philosophy Covering every aspect of Plato's thought in over 140 entries, The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato is an engaging introduction to Plato and an essential resource for anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy.

Author : Gerald A. Press
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826435354

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The Continuum Companion to Plato by Gerald A. Press Pdf

This comprehensive reference guide includes over 140 entries on every aspect of Plato's thought.

Author : J.M.E. Moravcsik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027702861

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Patterns in Plato’s Thought by J.M.E. Moravcsik Pdf

In his teachings and through his choice of the dialogue-form as a mode of communication, Plato emphasized the communal aspect of intellectual work. The need for having a community work together is nowhere more apparent then when the intellectual task set is that of interpreting the ancient philosophers. Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend some of our years as students at Oxford found that among our most inspiring experiences were the meetings of the Oxford Aristotelian So ciety, as well as the seminars in which B.PhiI. students discussed Plato and Aristotle. Up until the past few years no such group existed on the West Coast. In the fall of 1970 some of us got together to form the West Coast Greek Philosophy Conference, which was within a short time renamed by Prof. T. Rosenmeyer as 'the Aristotelians of the West, Unincorporated'. In our monthly meetings we translate and discuss Greek philosophic texts. For the past two years the group has been working on Aristotle's 'Physics'.

Author : Arnold Hermann
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930972605

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Plato's Parmenides by Arnold Hermann Pdf

Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. The Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.

Author : John Douglas Turner
Publisher : Presses Université Laval
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 2763778348

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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition by John Douglas Turner Pdf

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472532893

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Plato and Nietzsche by Mark Anderson Pdf

It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.

Author : Melissa Lane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472502292

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Plato's Progeny by Melissa Lane Pdf

Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual. And visions of Plato have proliferated at the heart of postmodern critiques of the very idea of metaphysics and politics. Plato's Progeny begins with an account of modern responses to the trial of Socrates and the controversial question of Socrates' relation to Plato. At its centre are two chapters exploring the idea of Platonic origins in and for philosophy, and of Platonic foundations for philosophical politics. Exploring unfamiliar as well as familiar invocations of Plato, Melissa Lane argues that twentieth-century ideological battles have obscured the importance of Socratic individualism, the nature of Platonic ethics, and the value of Platonic politics. Succinct and clearly written, this is an ideal guide for everyone interested in the way philosophers are still writing footnotes to Plato.

Author : Vilius Bartninkas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009322591

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy by Vilius Bartninkas Pdf

Shows how Plato's distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods sheds new light on his relation to Greek religion.

Author : Necip Fikri Alican
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401208123

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Rethinking Plato by Necip Fikri Alican Pdf

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE OF PLATO -- THOUGHT OF PLATO -- WORKS OF PLATO -- EUTHYPHRO -- APOLOGY -- CRITO -- PHAEDO -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE TO FURTHER STUDY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- VIBS.

Author : A. K. Cotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199684052

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Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader by A. K. Cotton Pdf

Cotton examines Plato's ideas about education and learning, with a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in approaching philosophical understanding.

Author : Gerd Van Riel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317079934

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Plato's Gods by Gerd Van Riel Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.

Author : Jakob L. Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012226

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The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle by Jakob L. Fink Pdf

Pioneering collection of essays contributing to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.

Author : John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0820471100

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Platonic Architectonics by John Shannon Hendrix Pdf

Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies & the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications. It examines elements of Plato's philosophical systems in relation to other philosophical systems, including those of Anaximander, Plotinus, Proclus, Nicolas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida. It also examines Plato's philosophy in relation to architectonic conceptions in the arts, including the work of Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca in the Renaissance, Paul Cezanne, and the Cubists and Deconstructivists in the twentieth century. Platonic Architectonics presents new interpretations of philosophical texts, artistic treatises, and works of art and architecture in Western culture as they are interrelated and related to Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophical structures. It demonstrates the importance of philosophy in the production of the visual arts throughout history and the importance of the relation between the work of art and the philosophical text and artistic treatise.

Author : Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801469176

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From Plato to Platonism by Lloyd P. Gerson Pdf

Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato’s own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In From Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients are correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato’s teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato's dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of "anti-naturalism." Gerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato—Plato’s own Platonism, so to speak—was produced out of a matrix he calls "Ur-Platonism." According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five "antis" that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato’s Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five "antis." It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics. In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as "the great exegete of the Platonic revelation."