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The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul

Author: Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004176233

Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity.

The Afterlife of the Platonic Soul

Author: Dillon El-Kaisy

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9786612401404

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"Plato's doctrine of the soul, its immaterial nature, its parts or faculties, and its fate after death (and before birth) came to have an enormous influence on the great religious traditions that sprang up in late antiquity, beginning with Judaism (in the person of Philo of Alexandria), and continuing with Christianity, from St. Paul on through the Alexandrian and Cappadocian Fathers to Byzantium, and finally with Islamic thinkers from Al-kindi on. This volume, while not aspiring to completeness, attempts to provide insights into how members of each of these traditions adapted Platonist doctrines to their own particular needs, with varying degrees of creativity"--Provided by publisher.

Plato and the Divided Self

Author: Rachel Barney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0521899664

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Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues

Author: Andrea Nightingale

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1108837301

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Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

Plato's Animals

Author: Jeremy Bell

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0253016207

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“A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics.” —Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English. “Plato’s Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger.” —Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver “Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area.” —Jill Gordon, author of Plato’s Erotic World

Phaedo

Author: Plato

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02-14

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781985288911

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After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the beloved disciple. The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity

Author: Harold Tarrant

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 9004355383

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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity demonstrates the variety of ways in which ancient readers responded to Plato, as author, as philosopher, and as leading intellectual light, from his own pupils until the sixth century CE.

The Republic

Author: Plato

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 1775413667

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The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.

An Image of the Soul in Speech

Author: David N. McNeill

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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Investigates what Nietzsche called the "problem of Socrates," as that problem manifests itself in Plato's work. In particular, the book demonstrates how Socrates' own confrontation with this problem is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy.

Plato and Myth

Author: Catherine Collobert

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-02-17

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 9004218661

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Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.