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Book Plato  s Metaphysics of Education  RLE  Plato

Download or read book Plato s Metaphysics of Education RLE Plato written by Samuel Scolnicov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive, learned and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato’s thought but with a particular emphasis upon how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting his deepest educational convictions. The author explores the relation of Plato’s metaphysics to the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of Plato’s theory of education and shows how Plato’s basic positions bear directly on the most fundamental questions faced by contemporary education.

Book Handbook of the history of philosophy  tr  and annotated by J  H  Stirling  Suppl  notes  p  395 486 only

Download or read book Handbook of the history of philosophy tr and annotated by J H Stirling Suppl notes p 395 486 only written by Friedrich Carl Albert Schwegler and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature

Download or read book The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sophists in Plato s Dialogues

Download or read book The Sophists in Plato s Dialogues written by David D. Corey and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Plato’s dialogues. Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Plato’s dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there exist important affinities between Socrates and the sophists he engages in conversation. Both focused squarely on aret? (virtue or excellence). Both employed rhetorical techniques of refutation, revisionary myth construction, esotericism, and irony. Both engaged in similar ways of minimizing the potential friction that sometimes arises between intellectuals and the city. Perhaps the most important affinity between Socrates and the sophists, David D. Corey argues, was their mutual recognition of a basic epistemological insight—that appearances (phainomena) both physical and intellectual were vexingly unstable. Such things as justice, beauty, piety, and nobility are susceptible to radical change depending upon the angle from which they are viewed. Socrates uses the sophists and sometimes plays the role of sophist himself in order to awaken interlocutors and readers from their dogmatic slumber. This in turn generates wonder (thaumas), which, according to Socrates, is nothing other than the beginning of philosophy.

Book A Complete Catalogue of Books

Download or read book A Complete Catalogue of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sophists

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  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2013-10-10
  • ISBN : 1472521196
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Sophists written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sophists were bold, exciting innovators with new ideas about Athenian society. The first to arrive, in about 444 BC, was Protagoras. During the last half of the fifth century BC he was followed by a succession of 'new age' itinerant instructors who were skilled in teaching. Mainly they taught the young ambitious men of Athens, instilling in them the skills they sought in order to become successful, that is, rich and influential. The Athenians flocked to hear them and enrol in their courses. The Sophists dared to charge high fees for their instruction and their students willingly paid.The Sophists were versatile and multi-talented. It seems that there was nothing one or other of them could not teach, but perhaps their greatest legacy to western society was their development of language, which, naturally, also benefited them in their work.Plato criticised the Sophists for promoting dangerous ideas which threatened the traditional structure of society. They taught their students how to argue convincingly and to turn the weaker argument into a winning argument against the stronger. Plato was markedly vitriolic in his criticism of the Sophists. Perhaps he was justified.Were the Sophists clever, rather than wise? Where does the truth lie? This book, with its lively, comprehensive treatment of the subject by twenty leading scholars in the field, will help the reader to decide.

Book The Winged Chariot

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  • Author : Lambertus Marie De Rijk
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9789004114807
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The Winged Chariot written by Lambertus Marie De Rijk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses important chapters of the history of Platonism, from its pre-Socratic roots to the Middle Ages. It includes papers on Plato's and Platonic semantics, metaphysics, theology, logic, epistemology, natural philosophy and philosophy of art.

Book The Best Books

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  • Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Plato

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  • Author : R. B. Rutherford
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780674048119
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Art of Plato written by R. B. Rutherford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature

Download or read book Reference Catalogue of Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the Beginning to Plato

Download or read book From the Beginning to Plato written by C.C.W. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC.

Book Platonic Questions

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  • Author : Diskin Clay
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780271041155
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Platonic Questions written by Diskin Clay and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought to be conveyed by the content of the dialogues. A distinguished classicist here offers an approach to understanding Plato that tries to do full justice to the form of Platonic philosophy, appreciated against the background of Greek literature and history, while also giving proper due to the important philosophic content of the dialogues. The book deals in turn with Plato's relation to and portraits of Socrates, the literary and philosophical character of the dialogues (including the problems of interpreting a philosopher who never speaks in his own name), and the modes of argumentation employed in the dialogues as well as some of their major themes.

Book The Greek Sophists

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  • Author : John Dillon
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2003-07-31
  • ISBN : 0141913363
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book The Greek Sophists written by John Dillon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By mid-5th century BC, Athens was governed by democratic rule and power turned upon the ability of the citizen to command the attention of the people, and to sway the crowds of the assembly. It was the Sophists who understood the art of rhetoric and the importance of transforming effective reasoning into persuasive public speaking. Their enquiries - into the status of women, slavery, the distinction between Greeks and barbarians, the existence of the gods, the origins of religion, and whether virtue can be taught - laid the groundwork for the insights of the next generation of thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle.

Book Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis

Download or read book Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect

Download or read book A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect written by Monro and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Post Augustan Poetry from Seneca to Juvenal

Download or read book Post Augustan Poetry from Seneca to Juvenal written by Harold Edgeworth Butler and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1909 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: