Download or read book The Platonic Epistles written by J. Harward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932, this book contains an English translation of the thirteen Epistles of Plato. Harward also provides a detailed introduction on the history of Sicily in the time of Plato, and examines the letters' claims to authenticity. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Sicilian history, Platonic philosophy or ancient letter writing.
Download or read book the platonic epistles written by Plato and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being and Logos written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Being and Logos is] a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace." —International Philosophical Quarterly John Sallis's luminous reading of six major Platonic dialogues—Apology, Meno, Phaedrus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist—weaves discussion of dramatic and mythical aspects together with basic philosophical issues. Being and Logos fundamentally reorients our reading and understanding of the platonic dialogues. This new edition of this classic of philosophical interpretation augments the Collected Writings of John Sallis, published by Indiana University Press.
Download or read book The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles written by Reginald Hackforth and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Platonic Epistles written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Plato s Letters written by Plato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy. Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the Letters is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original essays, Helfer describes how the Letters was written as a single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus. Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor. Plato's "Letters" not only defends what Helfer calls the "literary unity thesis" by reviewing the scholarly history pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result, Plato's "Letters" recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the Letters, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.
Download or read book Thirteen Epistles of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh Letter Plato - The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude concerning the possibility of writing true philosophical works and the theory of forms. Assuming that the letter is authentic, it was written after Dion was assassinated by Calippus in 353 BC and before the latter was in turn overthrown a year later.Of all the letters attributed to Plato, the Seventh Letter is widely considered the only one that might be authentic. R. Ledger defends its authenticity on the basis of computer analysis. Anthony Kenny is likewise inclined to accept it as genuine. The main objections to its authenticity involve its statement that there are forms or ideas of artificial things, whereas Aristotle attributes to Plato the idea that there are forms or ideas only of natural things, as well as the fact that the letter's purported historical setting seems unlikely: the letter implies that Dion's followers wrote to Plato asking him for practical political advice while at the same time insinuating that he had not been loyal to Dion, that Calippus permitted the letter to get to Plato, and that Plato replied by recounting in detail recent history to people who were immediately involved in those events and included in his advice a long digression on the theory of forms. These problems lead R. G. Bury to conclude that the letter was an open letter intended to defend Plato in the eyes of his fellow Athenians rather than to be sent to Dion's followers in Sicily; there probably never was any letter from them to Plato, he says.Nevertheless, the Seventh Letter has recently been argued to be spurious by prominent scholars such as Malcolm Schofield, Myles Burnyeat, George Boas, Terence Irwin, and Julia Annas. According to Annas, the Seventh Letter is "such an unconvincing production that its acceptance by many scholars is best seen as indicating the strength of their desire to find, behind the detachment of the dialogues, something, no matter what, to which Plato is straightforwardly committed."
Download or read book The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles Classic Reprint written by R. Hackforth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles The present condition of the prbblem is stated in my general introduction. The plan of this essay is to treat each Epistle, as far as possible, separately - a necessity of criticism which cannot be said to have been wholly observed by previous writers. A considerable amount of my argument necessarily consists in the upholding or refuting of the arguments of others, but I have endeavoured not to carry this to excess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles written by Reginald Hackforth and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics Philosophy Writing written by Zdravko Planinc and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading scholars represented in Politics, Philosophy, Writing examine six key Platonic dialogues and the most important of the epistles, moving from Plato's most public or political writings to his most philosophical. The collection is intended to demonstrate the unity of Plato's concerns, the literary quality of his writing, and the integral relation of form and content in his work. Taken together, these essays show the consistency of Plato's understanding of the political art, the art of writing, and the philosophical life.
Download or read book Thirteen Epistles of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epistles Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is George Burges nineteenth-century translation of Plato's seventh letter. It is an autobiographical account of a period in the Greek philosopher's life when he visited Syracuse (Sicily) to see his friend Dion. He shared his philosophical beliefs with his friend but this indirectly led to the death of Dion on the order of Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse. In the latter part of the letter Plato shares some of his philosophical beliefs, such as it is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
Download or read book Plato s Seventh Letter written by L. Edelstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato s Seventh Letter written by Ludwig Edelstein and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
