Myth And Philosophy From The Presocratics To Plato
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| Author | : Kathryn A. Morgan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2000-08-17 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139427520 |
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 | : Kathryn A. Morgan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2007-01-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521033282 |
This book explores the complex relationship between myth and philosophy in writings by Greek intellectuals between the late-sixth and mid-fourth centuries BC. Although philosophy may seem far removed from mythological stories, closer examination reveals that Plato and others realized that philosophic accounts too were "stories" about reality. Kathryn Morgan shows how these philosophers used myth to express philosophic problems. Her book traces a tradition of strictly rational and philosophical myth through two centuries.
| Author | : Jenny Bryan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521762944 |
Studies the philosophical development of the meaning of the Greek word eoikos, which can be used to describe similarity, plausibility or even suitability. It focuses on Xenophanes, Parmenides and Plato's Timaeus and shows how such a study serves to enhance our understanding of their epistemology and methodology.
| Author | : Michael W. Herren |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019060669X |
The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.
| Author | : Jennifer Lobo Meeks |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2020-10-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3838214250 |
Allegory in Early Greek Philosophy examines the role that allegory plays in Greek thought, particularly in the transition from the mythic tradition of the archaic poets to the philosophical traditions of the Presocratics and Plato. It explores how a mode of speech that "says one thing, but means another" is integral to philosophy, which otherwise seeks to achieve clarity and precision in its discourse. By providing the early Greek thinkers with a way of defending and appropriating the poetic wisdom of their predecessors, allegory enables philosophy to locate and recover its own origins in the mythic tradition. Allegory allows philosophy simultaneously to move beyond mythos and express the whole in terms of logos, a rational account in which reality is represented in a more abstract and universal way than myth allows.
| Author | : Omid Tofighian |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2016-11-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1137580445 |
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 | : Peter Adamson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2014-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199674531 |
Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world
| Author | : Esther Eidinow |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 443 |
| Release | : 2016-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316715213 |
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to represent and worship them. It excavates the attitudes towards the gods implicit in cult practice and analyses the beliefs about the gods embedded in such diverse texts and contexts as comedy, tragedy, rhetoric, philosophy, ancient Greek blood sacrifice, myth and other forms of storytelling. The result is a richer picture of the supernatural in ancient Greece, and a whole series of fresh questions about how views of and relations to the gods changed over time.
| Author | : Chelsea C. Harry |
| Publisher | : Brill's Companions to Philosop |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789004318175 |
"In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by Gottfried Heinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham, Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Christopher Kurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on the philosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics. Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy"--
| Author | : Lawrence J. Hatab |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
Hatab's work is more than an interpretative study, inspired by Neitzsche and Heidegger of the historical relationship between myth and philosophy in ancient Greece. Its conclusions go beyond the historical case study, and amount to a defence of the intelligibility of myth against an exclusively rational or objective view of the world.
