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Book The Dialogues of Plato

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ascent to the Beautiful

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  • Author : William H. F. Altman
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-10-21
  • ISBN : 1793615969
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Ascent to the Beautiful written by William H. F. Altman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught—and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum—Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

Book The Dialogues of Plato

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialogues of Plato

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  • Author : R. M. Hare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by R. M. Hare and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialogues of Plato  Vol 2   the Symposium and Other Dialogues

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato Vol 2 the Symposium and Other Dialogues written by Richard Mervyn Hare and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato

Download or read book Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato written by Friedrich Schleiermacher and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Plato s Symposium

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  • Author : Frisbee Sheffield
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2006-07-20
  • ISBN : 0191536822
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Plato s Symposium written by Frisbee Sheffield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.

Book A Less Familiar Plato

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  • Author : Kevin Corrigan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-06-30
  • ISBN : 1009324853
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book A Less Familiar Plato written by Kevin Corrigan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new views of perception; embodiment; the Good/Forms; art, imagination, and the divine; interdialogue connections and unwritten teachings

Book The Dialogues of Plato

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. E. Allen's superb new translation of Plato's Symposium brings this classic text to life for modern readers. Allen supplements his translation with a commentary that not only enriches our understanding of Plato's philosophy and the world of Greek antiquity but also provides insights into present-day philosophical concerns. Allen reveals the unity of Plato's intentions in the Symposium, explores the dialogue's major themes, and links them with Plato's other dialogues. His wide-ranging commentary includes discussions of Greek religious, social, and sexual practices, the conceptual connections between the Symposium and Freud, the influence of the Symposium on later writers, and recent scholarship on the dialogue. Allen's primary focus is philosophical, however, and he succeeds in explicating the doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium so that the reader can see how wish and desire relate to Plato's moral philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Book Socrates on Friendship and Community

Download or read book Socrates on Friendship and Community written by Mary P. Nichols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Socrates on Friendship and Community, Mary P. Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. This approach stands in contrast to the modern philosophical tradition, in which Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. Nichols' rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfilment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols also shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community.

Book Symposium or Drinking Party

Download or read book Symposium or Drinking Party written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work: A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work. A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama. A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium. Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.

Book Symposium  and Other Dialogues  Introd  by John Warrington

Download or read book Symposium and Other Dialogues Introd by John Warrington written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature  Language  Script  Imagination and Philosophy

Download or read book A Guide to Ancient Greek Literature Language Script Imagination and Philosophy written by Frederic Will and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronological survey of the major writers (or reciters, or performers, or orators) of Ancient Greece. Part One considers the major genres of ancient Greek literature: epic, history, drama, satire, lyric, and philosophy. It profiles some of the key issues and authors of each period, characterizes the literature of each period, and sprinkles quotes through the whole. Part Two comprises fifteen short essays on aspects of ancient Greek culture, including language (script and dialects); folklore; music; dance; mythology; painting; theater; government; military structures; class structure; gender relations; innovations; trade; and science. Overall, the book will serve as both reference guide and launchpad for ongoing attention to our Hellenic heritage.

Book The Trial of Socrates

Download or read book The Trial of Socrates written by Coleman Phillipson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.

Book Meno and Other Dialogues

Download or read book Meno and Other Dialogues written by Plato and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...' In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship; the later Meno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, and whether it is something that can be taught. In the conversations between Socrates and his interlocutors, moral concepts are debated and shown to be more complex than at first appears, until all the participants in the conversations are reduced to bafflement. The artistry as well as the philosophy of these dialogues has always been widely admired. The introduction to this edition explains the course of the four dialogues and examines the importance of Socrates' questions and arguments, and the notes cover major and minor points in more detail. This is an essential volume for understanding the brilliance of the first Western philosopher. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.