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Lifelong Studies in Love With Plato
Cover -- How Plato writes -- 1. Some examples -- 2. The reasons for this approach -- 3. The problem of writing -- 4. The writing as "game" -- 5. The Seventh Letter -- 6. Conclusion -- The Platonic Philosophy as Dialectic -- 1. How Plato comes to the doctrine of the Ideas and Principles in...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baden-Baden
: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Lecturae Platonis
v.12 |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6405882 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- How Plato writes -- 1. Some examples -- 2. The reasons for this approach -- 3. The problem of writing -- 4. The writing as "game" -- 5. The Seventh Letter -- 6. Conclusion -- The Platonic Philosophy as Dialectic -- 1. How Plato comes to the doctrine of the Ideas and Principles in the Phaedo -- 2. Parmenides -- 3. One important consequence -- 4. Ontological justification -- 5. Conclusion -- Plato: The knowledge of the unstable reality -- A. First premise. The reasons for the crisis of truth -- B. Second premise. The multifocal approach to knowledge -- 1. The sense perception -- 2. The central role of the soul -- 3. The necessity and insufficiency of the various ways of knowledge -- 4. Doxa -- 5. To know a complex reality -- 6. The basis of knowledge -- Are there any "youthful" and/or socratic dialogues? Some reflections on the Apology of Socrates -- 1. The order of the dialogues -- 2. The "youthful" dialogues -- 3. The Apology -- The charge -- The gods -- Socrates' defence -- Post-eventum prophecies -- Platonic elements -- The contrast between different ways of life -- 4. Conclusion -- The Phaedrus Polyphonic Structure -- 1. A paradoxical situation -- 2. Introductory elements for reading the dialogue -- 3. The structure of the dialogue -- 4. The dominant motif: the technique of oral and written communication and the responsibility of the teacher -- 5. The central theme of the dialogue: the true between philosophy and mania -- 6. The most important theme: the soul and the relationship between man and God -- 7. Conclusion -- The Statesman explains adequately the role of laws in Plato -- 1. Some preliminary remarks -- 2. The politeia in the Republic -- 3. The help of the Laws -- 4. The Statesman -- 5. Law and Politician -- 6. Pessimism of the intelligence, optimism of the will. A Hermeneutic Paradigm for the History of Ancient Philosophy: the Multifocal Approach -- 1. A peculiar situation -- 2. A different choice and its implications -- 3. The emergence of the multifocal approach -- The sophists' contribution -- The Platonic experience -- Aristotelian developments -- 4. The contemporary value of this view of ancient philosophy -- Historiographical Reading and Theoretical Reworking. An Underestimated Distinction -- 1. Premise -- 2. The underlying problem -- 3. Two different hermeneutics -- The theoretician's problem -- The problem of historian and theoretician -- Some differences between the two hermeneutics -- First conclusion -- 4. The problem of method -- The impossibility of a pure reduplication of thought -- The alleged univocity of the text -- An excessive disapproval -- The inability of fixing the method -- A clarification on the actual situation -- 5. The possible objectivity -- The issue of the reader -- The issue of the author -- A short excursus on Plato -- The necessary rigorousness on the topic of presuppositions -- 6. A hypothesis on method -- The whole and the part -- Context and literature -- Ancient Philosophy -- 7. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of ancient names -- Index of modern authors -- Index of the passages cited in extended form. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783896658661 |
