The Platonic Theages

Author : Mark Joyal
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3515072306

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The Platonic Theages by Mark Joyal Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the Theages, a dialogue whose Platonic authorship was not questioned in antiquity but has been doubted by most modern scholars. The book's introductory chapters confront such problems as the dialogue's purpose and meaning, its authenticity and date of composition, its depiction of Socrates' divine sign, and its relation to other Platonic and Socratic literature. The commentary deals in detail with a wide range of philosophical, philological and literary questions. A new text is also offered here, the first to be founded upon a complete knowledge of the manuscript tradition. "Joyal's commentary is the first work that has done justice to the Theages as a genuine document of Ancient Greek rather than as a work to insult and denigrate because it does not reach the heights of the best Platonic dialogues. Philologists and philosophers can gain immeasurably from Joyal's work." Gnomon "There can be no doubt that this edition will stand for many decades as the standard work" The Heythrop Journal "For anyone who does serious work on the language or text of Plato, and anyone who wants to explore an early monument of Socrates' transition from hero to saint, this ambitious study will yield years of profit.� Classical World "�this is certainly an important book and will be of enormous interest to students of Plato" Scripta Classica Israelica "�the edition is a pleasure to use, and an important tool of scholarship. It made me think. What more could one want?" Phoenix .

Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226993386

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Plato's Philosophers by Catherine H. Zuckert Pdf

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge : Macmillan
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600089997

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The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025139384

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The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers. By W. Whewell by Plato Pdf

Author : Stephen Gersh,Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110908497

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The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages by Stephen Gersh,Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen Pdf

This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739171394

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Plato the Teacher by William H. F. Altman Pdf

In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.

Author : Plato,Catholic Way Publishing
Publisher : Catholic Way Publishing
Page : 4260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783794584

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The Plato Collection [47 Books] by Plato,Catholic Way Publishing Pdf

THE PLATO COLLECTION [47 BOOKS] | PLATO THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO B. JOWETT M. A. | CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — The Complete Texts by one of the Greatest Philosophers that ever lived! — 43 Books by Plato; 14 Spurious Texts. 4 Books About Plato — Over 1.51 Million Words. Over 5,400 Active Linked Endnotes — Includes an Active Index, Table of Contents for all Books and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Plato (428/427 or 424/423–348/347 B.C.E.) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece. He is considered an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Alfred North Whitehead once noted: “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Plato’s dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His lasting themes include Platonic love, the theory of forms, the five regimes, innate knowledge, among others. His theory of forms launched a unique perspective on abstract objects, and led to a school of thought called Platonism. Plato’s writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato’s texts. —BOOKS BY PLATO— CHARMIDES LYSIS LACHES PROTAGORAS EUTHYDEMUS CRATYLUS PHAEDRUS ION SYMPOSIUM MENO EUTHYPHRO APOLOGY CRITO PHAEDO GORGIAS LESSER HIPPIAS ALCIBIADES I MENEXENUS ALCIBIADES II ERYXIAS THE REPUBLIC TIMAEUS CRITIAS PARMENIDES THEAETETUS SOPHIST STATESMAN PHILEBUS LAWS —SPURIOUS TEXTS— HIPPARCHUS THE RIVAL LOVERS THEAGES MINOS EPINOMIS SISYPHUS AXIOCHUS DEMODOCUS HALCYON ON JUSTICE ON VIRTUE DEFINITIONS EPIGRAMS THE EPISTLES —BOOKS ABOUT PLATO— INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND WRITINGS OF PLATO by Thomas Taylor PLATO AND PLATONISM by Walter Pater THE INFLUENCE OF PLATO ON SAINT BASIL by Theodore Leslie Shear ARTICLES ON PLATO by Various PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

Author : Gerald A. Press,Mateo Duque
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350227255

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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 : Plato,William Whewell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : PRNC:32101068132685

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The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers: Dialogues of the Socratic school, and dialogues referring to the trial and death of Socrates by Plato,William Whewell Pdf

Author : Mauro Bonazzi,Angela Ulacco,Filippo Forcignanò
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004398993

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Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism by Mauro Bonazzi,Angela Ulacco,Filippo Forcignanò Pdf

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Author : François Renaud,Harold Tarrant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521199124

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The Platonic Alcibiades I by François Renaud,Harold Tarrant Pdf

This book re-examines the drama and philosophy of Alcibiades I through the eyes of those interpreters who cherished it most.

Author : Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192893352

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Greek Dialogue in Antiquity by Katarzyna Ja:zd:zewska,Katarzyna Jażdżewska Pdf

Greek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.

Author : James M. Ambury,Andy German
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107184466

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Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy by James M. Ambury,Andy German Pdf

The only available volume of essays from scholars of every interpretative viewpoint on self-knowledge and self-ignorance in Plato's thought.

Author : David Edward Aune,Robin Darling Young
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047422761

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Reading Religions in the Ancient World by David Edward Aune,Robin Darling Young Pdf

In Reading Religions in the Ancient World, sixteen colleagues and students of Robert M. Grant honor their colleague, friend and mentor with essays on Classical Studies, New Testament Studies and Patristic Studies. These three areas of study signal the breadth and depth of Professor Grant’s own scholarly interests and productivity.

Author : Frances Nethercott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351726306

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Russia's Plato by Frances Nethercott Pdf

This title was first published in 2000. This work identifies the differences between the Russian intellectual approach to reading Plato and that of other European countries. This study offers a complex perspective on Russian philosophical learnings up to 1930. The book contains five chapters with the first aiming to provide the general institutional context in which Russian 19th century Plato scholarship developed, caught as it were, between the rise of the historical sciences and the heavy hand of state interference in standardizing the educational system in the name of nation building and modernization. The second chapter attempts to illustrate how Plato served as a reference in Russian philosophical culture and the third deals with aspects of Russian philosophy of law. In the fourth chapter, the author shifts his approach to compare and contrast a number of reactions to a single dialogue, the "Republic" and in the final concluding chapter, addresses the question of whether it is legitimate to speak of a Russian Platonism.