Download or read book PLATO IN LATE ANTIQUITY THE MIDDLE AGES AND MODERN TIMES written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato for the Modern Age written by Robert Sherrick Brumbaugh and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first one-volume introduction to Plato's biography with a complete account of his works since A.E. Taylor's. It includes a systematic explanation of Plato's theory of forms and concludes with an application of Plato's ideas to the world today. Designed as an introductory text for the beginning student of philosophy or for the general reader. Originally published in 1979 by Greenwood Press.
Download or read book Plato and His Legacy written by Yosef Z. Liebersohn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a detailed interpretation of Plato’s texts and Platonic philosophy in its various forms and shapes as a living force in the history of philosophy, from the Hellenistic age, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Italy, to modern England, America, Japan, and Israel. Most of the contributions here deal with the afterlife and influence of Plato’s dialogues in later Greek philosophy and in various places and periods, and approach a number of dialogues and issues from new perspectives, shedding new light on some ancient problems. These studies represent no single approach, and illustrate, in their various ways, some different methods of approaching the original and ever-surprising author that Plato has always been.
Download or read book The Works of Plato written by Plato and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Works of Plato: Analysis of Plato & The Republic are original Cosimo editions of a four-volume work, translated and analyzed by Benjamin Jowett. All of the works contained within are also published as separate works, but the four-volume set has added commentary from Jowett, considered one of the best translators of Plato's works. There are three editions in the Cosimo set; Volumes I and II make up the first book, and Volumes III and IV make up the second and third books. This set is ideal for any scholar of Plato and philosophy, whether amateur or seasoned. Volume I is an analysis of Plato's life and writings, concentrating on Plato's philosophy and background. Volume II is Plato's celebrated work, The Republic. These first two volumes are the perfect introduction for anyone reading Plato for the first time. One of the greatest Western philosophers who ever lived, Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates' teachings, often using him as a character in scripts and plays (Socratic dialogues), which he used to demonstrate philosophical ideas. Plato's dialogues were and still are used to teach a wide range of subjects, including politics, mathematics, rhetoric, logic, and, naturally, philosophy.
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 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.
Download or read book Western Philosophy written by James Nicholas Jordan and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1987 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six hundred years ago, among the Ionian Greeks, there arose the kind of reasoned inquiry after truth that characterizes philosophy in Western civilization. A path with many twists and turns (and desolate stretches as well) is traceable from this ancient beginning to the types of philosophy pursued in the West today. The aim of the present volume is to acquaint the reader with landmarks along this path as far as the end of the Middle Ages, until about 1350, when the Renaissance began its work of shaping the modern era. Western philosophers of the Ancient and Medieval periods have had great influence not only upon later philosophers but also upon the general culture of the West. Politics, religion, the arts, the sciences, the very notions that pass for common sense -- all have been complexly affected, directly and indirectly, by the philosophical methods and findings of Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Plotinus, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ockham, and others to be examined herein. Some knowledge of these thinkers is essential to any real understanding of the whys and wherefores of Western cultural history. Moreover, because most of the philosophicl issues investigated in modern times first came up in Ancient or Medieval discussions, a grasp of the latter is necessary to a just estimate of more recent discussions and to an avoidance of blind alleys and delayed insights in one's own philosophical reflections. It is also true that the ideas and intellectual careers of Ancient and Medieval philosophers are matters of absorbing interest on their own account. Simply as personalities these thinkers are extraordinary, and their respective contributions toward overcoming the "reign of chaos and old night" are among the noblest of human achievements. - Introductory note.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity written by Lloyd P. Gerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (edited by A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.
Download or read book The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good written by Dominic J. O'Meara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platonist philosophers during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. One particular theme is that of the structure of reality, with the associated questions of the relations between soul and body and between intelligible and sensible reality, and the existence of mathematical objects. Other topics relate to evil and beauty, political life and its purpose, the philosophical search for the absolute Good, and how one can speak about this Absolute and have union with it. Going from Plato to Eriugena, the ways in which Platonist philosophers understood and developed these themes are analysed and compared.
Download or read book Interpreting Proclus written by Stephen Gersh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (c.500–1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. Proclus was also intensively studied in the Islamic world of the Middle Ages and was a major influence on the thought of medieval Georgia. The volume begins with a substantial essay by the editor summarizing the entire history of Proclus' reception. This is followed by the essays of more than a dozen of the world's leading authorities in the various specific areas covered.
Download or read book Plato in the Third Sophistic written by Ryan C. Fowler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time. Plato in the Third Sophistic will help scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines to better understand the development of Christian literature in this era as an essential link in the history of Platonism as well as that of Christianity.
Download or read book Timaeus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timaeus is a work of dramatic scope, presenting a view of the world as Plato knew it. Beginning with an account of the origins of the universe and ending with an exploration of human health and psychology, the book puts forward a coherent explanation of the physical and metaphysical realms and their connection with each other. As extraordinary as they may seem now, Plato's views were extremely influential, informing Western scientific thought up through the Middle Ages. Fascinating both for its divergence from a modern scientific theory and for the philosophical implications of its worldview, Timaeus is essential reading for anyone interested in the Ancient Greeks or the history of scientific thought.
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Irene Caiazzo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.
Download or read book Plato and Modern Morality written by Pamela M. Huby and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.
Download or read book Plato for the Modern Age written by Robert Sherrick Brumbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Plato Tracing Plato written by Stephen Gersh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Gersh engages here with the Platonic tradition in European thought from the 4th to the 14th century. The essays discuss important figures in the history of Platonism such as Porphyry, Proclus, Boethius, Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, and Thierry of Chartres, and together serve to demonstrate the variety, continuity, and especially creativity of these writers.
