The Method Of Hypothesis And The Nature Of Soul In Plato S Phaedo

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108944236

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The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato's Phaedo by John Palmer Pdf

This study of Plato's Phaedo promotes better understanding of its arguments for the soul's immortality by showing how Plato intended them, not as proofs, but as properly dialectical arguments functioning in accordance with the method of hypothesis. Unlike the argument for the soul's immortality in the Phaedrus, which does seem intended as a proof, the Phaedo arguments are proceeding toward the first principles that could serve as the basis for a proof - the most important being an account of the soul's own essential nature. This study attends to the substantial progress the Phaedo makes toward such an account. It also considers Socrates' epistemic situation in the dialogue and the problem of whether his confidence in the face of death is misplaced if his arguments have not been proofs before considering how the concluding myth draws together several of the dialogue's main themes.

Author : David A. White
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Death
ISBN : 0945636016

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Myth and Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo by David A. White Pdf

This study intends principally to isolate and describe the function of myth in the Phaedo in order to show its effect on the complex metaphysics developed throughout the dialogue. It further illustrates how these metaphysical concepts structure the dialogue's concluding eschatological myth.

Author : David Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108846318

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Plato's Phaedo by David Ebrey Pdf

Plato's Phaedo is a literary gem that develops many of his most famous ideas. David Ebrey's careful reinterpretation argues that the many debates about the dialogue cannot be resolved so long as we consider its passages in relative isolation from one another, separated from their intellectual background. His book shows how Plato responds to his literary, religious, scientific, and philosophical context, and argues that we can only understand the dialogue's central ideas and arguments in light of its overall structure. This approach yields new interpretations of the dialogue's key ideas, including the nature and existence of 'Platonic' forms, the existence of the soul after death, the method of hypothesis, and the contemplative ethical ideal. Moreover, this comprehensive approach shows how the characters play an integral role in the Phaedo's development and how its literary structure complements Socrates' views while making its own distinctive contribution to the dialogue's drama and ideas.

Author : Daniel Sherman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739172339

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Soul, World, and Idea by Daniel Sherman Pdf

In its examination of two of Plato's key works, Soul, World, and Idea: An Interpretation of Plato's Republic and Phaedo reveals the key role that images and our capacity for image-making play in the relationship among soul, world, and Idea. This bookbegins and ends with a reading of the Republic. Daniel Sherman turns midway to the Phaedo to further analyze the nature of the soul and its relation to the nature of the Ideas, then returns to apply the conclusions to the rest of the Republic. Sherman's focus is on the ontological and epistemological argument, including attention to the dramatic detail. He argues that the ontology of the Ideas in the Republic and the Phaedo is inseparable from the ontology of human being, that is, from the structure and life of the soul. On this interpretation, the Ideas are seen as indeed objective but as in a sense also a product of a permanent dialectical relationship. The Ideas, though something more than concepts, do not have any real independent existence outside of this human dialectical triad of world, soul and Idea. The stability of the Ideas need not be grounded in a static otherworldliness, and the condition of meaning is not temporally prior to human existence in general. The result is a new interpretation concerning the realm of the Ideas, the immortality of the soul, and the lived in world of their interaction in the production of interpretive images. Sherman argues that the platonic soul is immortaland the Ideas eternal wholly and solely in human (dialogical) activity--the rest is muthologia--and that the world of our experience is a product of an ongoing act of interpretation or dianoetic dialegesthai. This reinterpretation of the platonic Ideas will be especially interesting to students and scholars of classics, ancient philosophy, and continental philosophy.

Author : Ryan Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123335536

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Two Concepts of the Soul in Plato's Phaedo by Ryan Topping Pdf

Two Concepts of the Soul in Plato's Phaedo is a fresh study of Plato's psychology with particular focus on his arguments for the immortality of the soul. Through detailed textual study, this new work examines the structure of the dialogue making explicit the nature of the argumentation within the text and its relation to Plato's other accounts of immortality.

Author : Samuel Scolnicov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520925113

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Plato's Parmenides by Samuel Scolnicov Pdf

Of all Plato’s dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents an illuminating new translation of the dialogue together with an extensive introduction and running commentary, giving a unified explanation of the Parmenides and integrating it firmly within the context of Plato's metaphysics and methodology. Scolnicov shows that in the Parmenides Plato addresses the most serious challenge to his own philosophy: the monism of Parmenides and the Eleatics. In addition to providing a serious rebuttal to Parmenides, Plato here re-formulates his own theory of forms and participation, arguments that are central to the whole of Platonic thought, and provides these concepts with a rigorous logical and philosophical foundation. In Scolnicov's analysis, the Parmenides emerges as an extension of ideas from Plato's middle dialogues and as an opening to the later dialogues. Scolnicov’s analysis is crisp and lucid, offering a persuasive approach to a complicated dialogue. This translation follows the Greek closely, and the commentary affords the Greekless reader a clear understanding of how Scolnicov’s interpretation emerges from the text. This volume will provide a valuable introduction and framework for understanding a dialogue that continues to generate lively discussion today.

Author : Fiona Leigh,Margaret Hampson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192672919

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Psychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy by Fiona Leigh,Margaret Hampson Pdf

Ancient Greek thought saw the birth, in Western philosophy, of the study now known as moral psychology. In its broadest sense, moral psychology encompasses the study of those aspects of human psychology relevant to our moral lives—desire, emotion, ethical knowledge, practical moral reasoning, and moral imagination—and their role in apprehending or responding to sources of value. This volume draws together contributions from leading international scholars in ancient philosophy, exploring central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools. Through a series of chapters and responses, these contributions challenge and develop interpretations of ancient views on topics from Socratic intellectualism to the nature of appetitive desires and their relation to goodness, from the role of pleasure and pain in virtue, to our capacities for memory, anticipation and choice and their role in practical action, to the question of the sufficiency or otherwise of the virtues for a flourishing human life.

Author : Celeste D. Harvey
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781535856652

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Plato on Soul and Body by Celeste D. Harvey Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Plato on Soul and Body is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Orestis Karatzoglou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732450

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The Embodied Self in Plato by Orestis Karatzoglou Pdf

This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but also provides the subject of inquiry with the ability to actualize, to the extent possible, the ideal self. The Republic locates bodily desires and needs in the tripartite soul. Achievement of maximal unity is dependent upon successful training of the rational part of the soul, but the earlier curriculum of Books 2 and 3, which aims at instilling a pre-reflectively virtuous disposition in the lower parts of the soul, is a prerequisite for the advanced studies of Republic 7. In the Timaeus, the world soul is fashioned out of Being, Sameness, and Difference: an examination of the Sophist and the Parmenides reveals that Difference is to be identified with the Timaeus’ Receptacle, the third ontological principle which emerges as the quasi-material component that provides each individual soul with the alloplastic capacity for psychological growth and alteration.

Author : Ryan Nathan Scott Topping
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Death
ISBN : OCLC:654293864

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Two Concepts of the Soul in Plato's Phaedo by Ryan Nathan Scott Topping Pdf

This book is a fresh study of Plato's psychology with particular focus on his arguments for the immortality of the soul. Through detailed textual study, this new work examines the structure of the dialogue making explicit the nature of the argumentation within the text and its relation to Plato's other accounts of immortality. The author argues that the view of the soul in the Phaedo can be usefully separated into two concepts, which he terms the basic and total concepts. The basic concept consists of the features of the soul that are not used by the character Socrates as the foundation for arguments showing either the pre-existence or post-existence of the soul. In addition to the features contained in the basic concept, the total concept includes the features used as the basis of arguments intending to prove either the pre-existence of the soul, as well as the features of pre-existence and post-existence themselves. - Back cover.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Immortality
ISBN : UIUC:30112097609603

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Phaedo by Plato Pdf

Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521859476

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Plato: Meno and Phaedo by David Sedley Pdf

Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. Together they illustrate the birth of Platonic philosophy from Plato's reflections on Socrates' life and doctrines. This edition offers new and accessible translations of both works, together with a thorough introduction that explains the arguments of the two dialogues and their place in Plato's thought.

Author : Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899666

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Plato and the Divided Self by Rachel Barney,Tad Brennan,Charles Brittain Pdf

Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1985288915

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Phaedo by Plato Pdf

After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the beloved disciple. The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Immortality
ISBN : UCAL:$B498227

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Plato's Phaedo by Plato Pdf