Plato And The Divided Self
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Author | : Rachel Barney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521899664 |
Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
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ISBN | : 9781139220651 |
Author | : A. A. Long |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 067472903X |
A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
Author | : Laura Candiotto |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004432272 |
Emotions in Plato, through a detailed analysis of emotions such as shame, anger, fear, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship, offers a fresh account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory.
Author | : Andrea Nightingale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108837301 |
Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.
Author | : R. M. Dancy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004-09-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139456237 |
Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains the Theory of Forms of the Phaedo and Symposium as an outgrowth of the quest for definitions canvassed in the Socratic dialogues, by constructing a Theory of Definition for the Socratic dialogues based on the refutations of definitions in those dialogues, and showing how that theory is mirrored in the Theory of Forms. His discussion, notable for both its clarity and its meticulous scholarship, ranges in detail over a number of Plato's early and middle dialogues, and will be of interest to readers in Plato studies and in ancient philosophy more generally.
Author | : Samuel Scolnicov |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2003-07-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520925114 |
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 | : Richard M. Gale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521549554 |
This is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James. It portrays that philosophy as containing a deep division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and a passive mysticism. The pragmatist James conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control nature and make it do our bidding. The mystic James eschews the use of concepts in order to penetrate to the inner conscious core of all being, including nature at large. Richard Gale attempts to harmonize these pragmatic and mystical perspectives.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.
Author | : Daniel S. Werner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2012-07-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1107021286 |
Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.