Plato And Demosthenes
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Author | : William H. F. Altman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-10-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1666920061 |
Universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity, it is the eloquent and patriotic orator Demosthenes—not the pro-Macedonian Aristotle who tutored Alexander the Great—who returned to the dangerous Cave of political life, and thus makes it possible to recover the Old Academy. In Plato and Demosthenes: Recovering the Old Academy, William H. F. Altman explores how Demosthenes—along with Phocion, Lycurgus, and Hyperides—add external and historical evidence for the hypothesis that Plato’s brilliant and challenging dialogues constituted the Academy’s original curriculum. Altman rejects the facile view that the eloquent Plato, a master speech-writer as well as the proponent of the transcendent and post-eudaemonist Idea of the Good, was rhetoric’s enemy. He shows how Demosthenes acquired the discipline necessary to become a great orator, first by shouting at the sea and then by summoning the Athenians to self-sacrifice in defense of their waning freedom. Demosthenes thus proved Socrates’ criticism of democracy and the democratic man wrong, just as Plato the Teacher had intended that his best students would, and as he continues to challenge us to do today.
Author | : Henry William Auden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Greek language |
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Author | : William Jackson Brodribb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : Ian Worthington |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190263563 |
The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop of late classical Greece and Macedonia
Author | : Demosthenes |
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Release | : 1988 |
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ISBN | : 9780674992634 |
Author | : Werner Jaeger |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
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"Demosthenes (384-322 BC) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC."--Wikipedia.
Author | : Danielle S. Allen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1444334484 |
Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world’s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world’s first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics Offers accessible discussions of Plato’s philosophy of language and political theory Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
Author | : Diogenes Laërtius |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2023-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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These brief biographies of more than eighty philosophers of ancient Greece were assembled by Diogenes Laërtius in the early third century. He based these on a variety of sources that have since been lost. Because of this, his biographies have become an invaluable source of information on the development of ancient Greek philosophy, and on ancient Greek culture in general. Most of what we know about the lives and otherwise lost doctrines of Zeno the Stoic and Diogenes the Cynic, for example, come from what Diogenes Laërtius preserved in this book. Mourning what else we have lost, Montaigne wrote: “I am very sorry we have not a dozen Laërtii.” Steamy romance, barbed humor, wicked cattiness, tender acts of humanity, jealous feuds, terrible puns, sophistical paradoxes, deathbed deceptions, forgery, and political intrigue ... while the philosophers of ancient Greece were developing their remarkable and penetrating philosophies, they were also leading strange and varied lives—at times living out their principles in practice, at other times seeming to defy all principle. Diogenes Laërtius collected as much biographical information as he could find about these ancient sages, and tried to sift through the sometimes contradictory accounts to find the true story. He shares with us anecdotes and witty remarks and biographical details that reveal the people behind the philosophies, and frequently adds a brief poem of his own construction that comments sardonically on how each philosopher died.
Author | : Danielle S. Allen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1444351915 |
Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world’s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world’s first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics Offers accessible discussions of Plato’s philosophy of language and political theory Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
Author | : Ian Worthington |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134628919 |
Demosthenes is often adjudged the statesman par excellence, and his oratory as some of the finest to survive from classical times. Contemporary politicians still quote him in their speeches and for some he is the supreme example of a patriot. This landmark study of this remarkable man and his long career, the first to focus on him for more than 80 years, looks at the background behind this reputation and asks whether it is truly deserved.