The Plato Code
| Author | : Jay Kennedy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781471100017 |
A revolutionary biography and philosophical history which has blown wide open the way we have viewed Plato for the last 500 years
The Plato Code
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The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues
| Author | : J.B. Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2014-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317547977 |
J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are relatively harmonious or dissonant, and so traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale. Many of Plato's ancient followers insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views within the dialogues, but modern scholars have denied this. Kennedy, an expert in Pythagorean mathematics and music theory, now shows that Plato's dialogues do contain a system of symbols. Scholars in the humanities, without knowledge of obsolete Greek mathematics, would not have been able to detect these musical patterns. This book begins with a concise and accessible introduction to Plato's symbolic schemes and the role of allegory in ancient times. The following chapters then annotate the musical symbols in two of Plato's most popular dialogues, the Symposium and Euthyphro, and show that Plato used the musical scale as an outline for structuring his narratives.
Laws
| Author | : Plato |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2022-05-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
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.
Plato's 'Laws'
| Author | : Christopher Bobonich |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2010-11-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139493566 |
Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, the essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.
The Socrates Code
| Author | : Peter Hubral |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2014-07-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9781500465605 |
Peter Hubral sets out a meticulously researched and convincing case that Western Philosophy is founded less upon the original Ancient Greek texts, as on a careless and ahistorical misreading of them, for which he provides an unprecedented rigorous revision. He shows that the original Greek terms astronomía, átomos, kósmos, geometría, idéa, planétes, práxis, psyché, mousiké, sympósion, theoría, and so on have nothing at all to do with astronomy, atom, cosmos, geometry, and so on. The originals terms rather find their equivalents in the Chinese Taiji-practice that he follows since 1997 under the guidance of Dao-Grandmaster Fangfu. He provides abundant evidence that this millennial practice equals the unwritten lost practice of dying (meléte thanátou) about which Plato writes: Those, who happen to grasp the philosophía correctly, risk being unrecognised by others because it is nothing but 'practising to die and to be dead' (Phaidon 64a). This practice - see the front cover - is based on the rigorous implementation of Wuwei, which the Greeks call philía that philosophía refers to, thus giving Greek wisdom (sophía) a completely new meaning. Due matching the Dao-practice to the practice of dying, Hubral completely dismantles the illusion that the western world has constructed about Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, etc. He shows that they made much more profound discoveries with the practice of dying about nature than what we are told about their contributions to mankind in uncountable commentaries!
The Theology of Arithmetic
| Author | : Iamblichus |
| Publisher | : Red Wheel/Weiser |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 1988-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780933999725 |
Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its is the longest work on number symbolism to survive from the ancient world, and Robin Waterfield's careful translation contains helpful footnotes, an extensive glossary, bibliography, and foreword by Keith Critchlow. Never before translated from ancient Greek, this important sourcework is indispensable for anyone intereted in Pythagorean though, Neoplatonism, or the symbolism of Numbers.
THE PLATO CODE
| Author | : SOLATLE LU |
| Publisher | : American Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2024-02-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1631814664 |
The Plato Code: Wisdom Being the Author of Truth and Knowledge. Even in ancient Athens, the distinction between wisdom and knowledge is unclear, apart from Plato, the founder of the philosophy of loving wisdom; His opposite is the philosophy of loving knowledge, represented by Aristotle and the Sophists. Western philosophy thenceforth has been divided into the two schools, the latter widely admired and followed; The former were widely ignored, leading to repression and persecution: a situation that continues to this day. This shows that mankind has not yet reached the height of wisdom in life. It’s the philosophy of the soul and the philosophy of the master that is ignored by most people and which will not change for a long time to come. Fortunately, wisdom does not abandon the world due to the ignorance of most people; On the contrary, she has been quietly moving the world, which is what Chapter 8 of this book suggests. This is a rare book praising the philosophy of loving wisdom. The author further points out that philosophy is not an empty concept being disputed or epistemology, but the most creative subject. Just like Plato applied philosophy to state governance, the author soon applied philosophy to the construction of cosmology, published Cosmic Force Cosmology, and updated it to the third edition in a short time. The author’s case shows that only the philosophy of loving wisdom can understand Plato’s Highest Knowledge, know and discover the First Cause (Light), and know and create absolute truth. The main purpose of this book is to make more readers know, love and devote themselves to the philosophy of loving wisdom.
Plato and the Socratic Dialogue
| Author | : Charles H. Kahn |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 1997-01-09 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521433259 |
This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an artistic plan for the gradual, indirect and partial exposition of Platonic philosophy. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.
Plato's Penal Code
| Author | : Trevor J. Saunders |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
This book assesses Plato's penal code within the tradition of Greek penology. Saunders provides a detailed exposition of the emergence of the concept of publicly controlled, rationally calculated, and socially directed punishment in the period between Homer and Plato. He outlines the serious debate that ensued in the fifth century over the opposition by philosophers to popular judicial assumptions, and shows how the philosophical arguments gradually gained ground. He demonstrates that Plato advanced the most radical of the philosophical formulations of the concept of punishment in his Laws, arguing that punishment is or should be utilitarian and strictly reformative. This first comprehensive and detailed study of Plato's penology gives deserved attention to the works of a most important political and legal thinker.
Plato's Republic
| Author | : Alain Badiou |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 565 |
| Release | : 2013-04-25 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0745663516 |
Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the work from the original Greek and, by making various changes, adapted it for our times. In this innovative reimagining of a classic text, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek society, from the endless exchanges about the moral courage of poets to those political considerations that were only of interest to the aristocratic elite. On the other hand, Badiou has expanded the range of cultural references: here philosophy is firing on all cylinders, and Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud and Hegel. They demonstrate the enduring nature of true philosophy, always ready to move with the times. Moreover, Badiou the dramatist has made the Socratic dialogue a true oratorial contest: in his version of the Republic, the interlocutors have more in mind than merely agreeing with the Master. They stand up to him, put him on the spot and thereby show thought in motion. Through this work of writing, scholarship and philosophy, we are able, for the first time, to read a version of Plato's text which is alive, stimulating and directly relevant to our world today.
