Download or read book Comprehensive Study of Plato written by N. Jayapalan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato (428 B.C.-347 B.C.) Was One Of Greatest Philosophers In The Western Philosophical Tradition. He Was The Pupil Of Socrates, Teacher Of Aristotle And Founder Of The 'Academy'. Central To His Teachings Is The Notion Of Forms, Which Are Located Outside The Everyday World, Timeless, Motionless And Absolutely Real. Plato'S Philosophy Rejects Scientific Rationalism In Favour Of Arguments. According To Him, Mind, Not Matter, Is Fundamental And Material Objects Are Merely Imperfect Copies Of Abstract And Eternal 'Ideas'.The Majority Of His Works Are In Dialogue Form On Topics Like Metaphysics, Ethics & Politics. The Principal Speaker In These Works In Socrates.The Republic, One Of Most Famous Dialogues Deals With Justice, Ideal Type Of State Jurisprudence & The Concept Of 'Good'.The Present Book Is An Excellent Companion To Plato'S Life & Philosophy. Plato'S Views On State, Justice, Communism, Education, Democracy And Foreign Relations Etc. Are Discussed And Analysed In Detail. It Includes Comparison Between The Republic And The Laws And Plato'S Contribution To The History Of Political Thought. In The End Of The Book Original Text Of Republic Of Plato And The Original Text Of Plato In The Academy Forms And Numbers By A.E. Taylor Have Been Given. A Topic On Socrates And A Chronological Table Depicting The Important Events That Took Place During The Lifetime Of Plato Have Also Been Included In The Book.
Download or read book Complete Works written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers translations of Plato's works and includes guidance on approaching their reading and study
Download or read book Comprehensive Study Of Aristotle written by N. Jayapalan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle Was Born In 384 B.C. At Stagira, A City Of Greece And Died In 322 B.C. At Euboea. He Was A Master Of Dialectics. He Was A Great Observer, A Voracious Reader And A Specialist In Both The Natural Sciences And Philosophy. Among His Writings One Finds Not Only On Metaphysics And Logic But Also On Human Sciences Like Psychology And Ethics And Politics As Well As Upon Natural Sciences.The Book Deals With All Aspects Of Aristotle Including His Birth, Career And Contributions In An Excellent Manner. In This Book The Events Have Been Recorded In A Chronological Order. Aristotle S Contributions Are Traced In A Lucid Manner So As To Meet The Requirements Of The Students And The Common Readers. From This Book We Get A Clear Picture About The Comparative Ideas Of Socrates And Plato And Plato And Aristotle In Respect Of Many Institutions. At The End Of The Book, I.E., In The Appendices, A Textual Study Of Aristotle, Important Persons And Places And Chronological Table Have Been Given So As To Depict A Clear Picture Of Aristotle.
Download or read book Plato s Gods written by Gerd Van Riel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.
Download or read book Plato s Philosophers written by Catherine H. Zuckert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plato s Republic written by Stanley Rosen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book a distinguished philosopher offers a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's most controversial dialogue. Treating the Republic as a unity and focusing on the dramatic form as the presentation of the argument, Stanley Rosen challenges earlier analyses of the Republic (including the ironic reading of Leo Strauss and his disciples) and argues that the key to understanding the dialogue is to grasp the author's intention in composing it, in particular whether Plato believed that the city constructed in the Republic is possible and desirable. Rosen demonstrates that the fundamental principles underlying the just city are theoretically attractive but that the attempt to enact them in practice leads to conceptual incoherence and political disaster. The Republic, says Rosen, is a vivid illustration of the irreconcilability of philosophy and political practice.
Download or read book The Republic written by By Plato and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
Download or read book The Dialectic of Essence written by Allan Silverman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dialectic of Essence offers a systematic new account of Plato's metaphysics. Allan Silverman argues that the best way to make sense of the metaphysics as a whole is to examine carefully what Plato says about ousia (essence) from the Meno through the middle period dialogues, the Phaedo and the Republic, and into several late dialogues including the Parmenides, the Sophist, the Philebus, and the Timaeus. This book focuses on three fundamental facets of the metaphysics: the theory of Forms; the nature of particulars; and Plato's understanding of the nature of metaphysical inquiry. Silverman seeks to show how Plato conceives of "Being" as a unique way in which an essence is related to a Form. Conversely, partaking ("having") is the way in which a material particular is related to its properties: Particulars, thus, in an important sense lack essence. Additionally, the author closely analyzes Plato's idea that the relation between Forms and particulars is mediated by form-copies. Even when some late dialogues provide a richer account of particulars, Silverman maintains that particulars are still denied essence. Indeed, with the Timaeus's introduction of the receptacle, there are no particulars of the traditional variety. This book cogently demonstrates that when we understand that Plato's concern with essence lies at the root of his metaphysics, we are better equipped to find our way through the labyrinth of his dialogues and to better appreciate how they form a coherent theory.
Download or read book Plato the Teacher written by William H. F. Altman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opposed to determining the order in which he wrote them, Altman breaks with traditional methods by reading Plato’s dialogues as a multiplex but coherent curriculum in which the Allegory of the Cave occupies the central place. His reading of Plato's Republic challenges the true philosopher to choose the life of justice exemplified by Socrates and Cicero by going back down into the Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Plato written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 3807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's 'The Complete Works of Plato' is a comprehensive collection of his philosophical dialogues, encompassing topics such as ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Written in the form of dialogues between Socrates and various other characters, Plato's works are known for their Socratic method of inquiry and exploration of truth and virtue. His literary style is characterized by its depth, complexity, and intellectual rigor, making his works essential reading for anyone interested in the foundations of Western philosophy. The dialogues provide insight into Plato's views on the nature of reality, knowledge, and the ideal state. Plato, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, was deeply influenced by the intellectual climate of ancient Greece. His dialogues often reflect his dissatisfaction with the prevailing moral and political attitudes of his time, leading him to offer alternative visions of justice, virtue, and the good life. Plato's enduring influence on Western thought is evident in his continued relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy and politics. I highly recommend 'The Complete Works of Plato' to readers seeking a deeper understanding of classical philosophy and its enduring significance. Plato's dialogues remain essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of Western thought and the pursuit of wisdom.
Download or read book The Art of Transition in Plato written by Grace Elvina Hadle Billings and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Plato's philosophy of transition, exploring his views on change, transformation, and the nature of reality. Drawing on a wide range of Platonic dialogues, this book offers a fresh perspective on the thought of one of the greatest philosophers of all time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Plato at the Googleplex written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plato Complete Works written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 1840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and offers guidance on approaching the reading and study of Plato's works. Also included are concise introductions by Cooper and Hutchinson to each translation, meticulous annotation designed to serve both scholar and general reader, and a comprehensive index. This handsome volume offers fine paper and a high-quality Smyth-sewn cloth binding in a sturdy, elegant edition.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Plato written by Richard Kraut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-30 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Plato s Conception of Justice and the Question of Human Dignity written by Marek Piechowiak and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2019 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, apprehension of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding an individual in relation to law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian approaches.
Download or read book Levels of Argument written by Dominic Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Levels of Argument, Dominic Scott compares the Republic and Nicomachean Ethics from a methodological perspective. In the first half he argues that the Republic distinguishes between two levels of argument in the defence of justice, the 'longer' and 'shorter' routes. The longer is the ideal and aims at maximum precision, requiring knowledge of the Forms and a definition of the Good. The shorter route is less precise, employing hypotheses, analogies and empirical observation. This is the route that Socrates actually follows in the Republic, because it is appropriate to the level of his audience and can stand on its own feet as a plausible defence of justice. In the second half of the book, Scott turns to the Nicomachean Ethics. Scott argues that, even though Aristotle rejects a universal Form of the Good, he implicitly recognises the existence of longer and shorter routes, analogous to those distinguished in the Republic. The longer route would require a comprehensive theoretical worldview, incorporating elements from Aristotle's metaphysics, physics, psychology, and biology. But Aristotle steers his audience away from such an approach as being a distraction from the essentially practical goals of political science. Unnecessary for good decision-making, it is not even an ideal. In sum, Platonic and Aristotelian methodologies both converge and diverge. Both distinguish analogously similar levels of argument, and it is the shorter route that both philosophers actually follow--Plato because he thinks it will have to suffice, Aristotle because he thinks that there is no need to go beyond it.
Download or read book Plato s Introduction of Forms written by R. M. Dancy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
