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Author: George Boys-Stones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1107038987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays bringing diverse approaches to Plato into conversation in the spirit of its honorand, Christopher Rowe.
Author: R. B. Rutherford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780674048119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterisation, language and imagery. Among the dialogues considered in these interrelated essays are some of Plato's most admired and influential works, including the Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic and the Phaedrus. Special attention is paid to the personality of Socrates, Plato's remarkable mentor, and to his interaction with the other characters in the dialogues. Rutherford also includes detailed discussion of particular problems such as the sources for our knowledge of Socrates, the origins of the dialogue form, Plato's use of myth, and the 'totalitarianism' of the Republic. The combination of sympathetic literary criticism with exact historical scholarship gives The Art of Plato its special qualities.
Author: Christopher Rowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-11-22
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 1139467794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as literary-philosophical artefacts, shaped by Plato's desire to persuade his readers to exchange their view of life and the universe for a different view which, from their present perspective, they will barely begin to comprehend. What emerges is a radically new Plato: a Socratic throughout, who even in the late dialogues is still essentially the Plato (and the Socrates) of the Apology and the so-called 'Socratic' dialogues. This book aims to understand Plato both as a philosopher and as a writer, on the assumption that neither of these aspects of the dialogues can be understood without the other. The argument of the book is closely based in Plato's text, but should be accessible to any serious reader of Plato, whether professional philosopher, classicist, or student.
Author: Tushar Irani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1107181984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Author: C J Rowe
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781107417076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of essays bringing diverse approaches to Plato into conversation in the spirit of its honorand, Christopher Rowe.
Author: Alison Denham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0230368182
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions.
Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1107378230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0307378195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Author: Giovanni R. F. Ferrari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0521839637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a fresh and comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general.
Author: John R. Wallach
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-12-16
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0271031026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be seen as having the potential for contributing to democratic discourse about ethics and politics today. The author argues that Plato articulates and "solves" his Socratic Problem in his various dialogues in different but potentially complementary ways. The book effectively extracts Plato from the straightjacket of Platonism and from the interpretive perspectives of the past fifty years—principally those of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, M. I. Finley, Jacques Derrida, and Gregory Vlastos. The author’s distinctive approach for understanding Plato—and, he argues, for the history of political theory in general—can inform contemporary theorizing about democracy, opening pathways for criticizing democracy on behalf of virtue, justice, and democracy itself.
