Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings
Author : Charles L. Griswold Jr.
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271044810
Author : Charles L. Griswold Jr.
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271044810
Author : Charles L. Griswold
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Dialogue
ISBN : 9780710215659
The contributors to this volume focus on two main themes. First, the general problem of interpreting a Platonic dialogue: what assumptions about the text are made or ought to be made, and how do these assumptions illumine or conceal the content of the dialogues? The second theme concerns Plato's reasons for writing dialogues as distinguished from treatises, Plato being the only western philosopher to have written almost exclusively in dialogue form.
Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253044332
[Being and Logos is] a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace." —International Philosophical Quarterly John Sallis's luminous reading of six major Platonic dialogues—Apology, Meno, Phaedrus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist—weaves discussion of dramatic and mythical aspects together with basic philosophical issues. Being and Logos fundamentally reorients our reading and understanding of the platonic dialogues. This new edition of this classic of philosophical interpretation augments the Collected Writings of John Sallis, published by Indiana University Press.
Author : Thomas A. Szlezák
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1134656491
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy. Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.
Author : Catherine H. Zuckert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226993388
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 : Gerald Alan Press
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780847692194
These essays examine a crucial premise of traditional readings of Plato's dialogues: that Plato's own philosophical dialogues can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and other leading characters. The text argues that no character should be read as Plato's mouthpiece.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691242925
This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue.
Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 1992-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521436106
Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 1852 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872203495
Gathers translations of Plato's works and includes guidance on approaching their reading and study
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603849165
A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff. The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the Republic. Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, "Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available."