Plato's Progress

Plato's Progress PDF Author: Gilbert Ryle
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature.

Plato's Progress

Plato's Progress PDF Author: Gilbert Ryle
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature.

The Progress of Plato's Progress

The Progress of Plato's Progress PDF Author: Richard Freis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Plato's Ethics

Plato's Ethics PDF Author: Terence Irwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195086457
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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Studies Plato's Republic and other dialogues.

Plato's Stranger

Plato's Stranger PDF Author: Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438490356
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues—the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a trilogy that also includes the Theaetetus—of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical logos and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical stranger, a stranger to all native identity, has theoretical implications, and, rather than a rhetorical or merely literary device, is of the order of an argument. Plato's Stranger argues that in these late dialogues, Plato bestows on the West a philosophical and political legacy at the core of which the stranger holds a prominent place because it provides the foreigner—the other—with a previously unheard-of constitutive role in the way thinking, as well as life in community, is understood. What is to be learned from these late dialogues is that, without a constitutive relation to otherness, discursive and political life in a community—in other words, also of the way one relates to oneself—remain lacking.

Philosopher in Plato's Statesman

Philosopher in Plato's Statesman PDF Author: Mitchell Miller
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
ISBN: 1930972431
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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In the Statesman, Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here, Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealing that its chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonized act of realizing the mean. The original study left one question outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue? Miller addressed in a separate essay, first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it, he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new metaphysics of the Parmenides, the Philebus, and the "e;unwritten teachings."e;

Knowledge and Truth in Plato

Knowledge and Truth in Plato PDF Author: Catherine Rowett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192540920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that " is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence. Instead Rowett argues that Plato was replacing the failed methods of Socrates, including his attempt to find a definition or single common factor, and that he replaced those methods with methods derived from geometry, including methods that involve inference from shadows to their originals (a method which Rowett calls "). As a result we should see that Plato is presenting the knowledge that is acquired as non-propositional and pictorial in nature, and that it is to be identified not with knowledge of facts nor of objects, but of types qua types-types that stand to the tokens that are used in our enquiry as original to shadow. The book includes detailed studies of the Meno, Republic and Theaetetus, and argues that the insights that Plato brings about the nature of conceptual knowledge, its importance in underpinning all other activities, and about the notion of truth as it applies to conceptual competence, are significant and should be taken seriously as a corrective to areas in which current analytic philosophy has lost its way.

The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic

The Origin and Growth of Plato's Logic PDF Author: Wincenty Lutosławski
Publisher:
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Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Forms, Matter and Mind

Forms, Matter and Mind PDF Author: E. N. Ostenfeld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940097681X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting of Plato's metaphysics. We seek to achieve this by a philosophical examination"-of the dialogues on the basis of a generally accepted order (some revision of this order is a by-product of our examination). Strictly speaking "soul" ought perhaps to be substituted for "mind" in the above. But it seems to be in terms of "mind" that modern philosophers deal with and refer to the problem that Plato tackled (mainly) in terms of psyche, and as it is part of the motivation for dealing with Plato's treatment that it is of importance for the modern debate, it has been felt necessary to stress the rough identity* of the problem in the title of the book (and in the Introduction, in the title of Part Three and a few other places). Below this superordinate level we try to keep "mind" as a translation typically of nous and "soul" as a translation of psyche.

Plato and Socrates

Plato and Socrates PDF Author: Richard McKirahan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415627702
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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A comprehensive bibliography on all scholarly work that was published on Plato and Socrates during the years 1958-73. The author has sought to include all materials primarily concerned with Socrates and Plato, together with other works which make a contribution to our understanding of the two philosophers.

Cross-Examining Socrates

Cross-Examining Socrates PDF Author: John Beversluis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521550581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This book is a rereading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Existing studies are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false. This book takes interlocutors seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible than commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarise their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues.