Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato write by Alex Long. This book was released on 2013-04-11. Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A. G. Long presents a new account of the importance of conversation in Plato's philosophy. He provides close studies of eight dialogues, including some of Plato's most famous works, and traces the emergence of internal dialogue or self-questioning as an alternative to the Socratic conversation from which Plato starts.
Plato's Dialogue on Friendship
Plato's Dialogue on Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Dialogue on Friendship write by Plato. This book was released on 1989. Plato's Dialogue on Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1979, Plato's Dialogue on Friendship is the first book-length interpretation of the Lysis in English, offering both a full analysis and a literal translation of this frequently neglected Platonic dialogue. David Bolotin interprets the Lysis as an important work in its own right and places it in the context of Plato's other writings. He attempts to show that despite Socrates' apparent failure to discover what a friend is, a coherent understanding of friendship emerges in the Lysis. His commentary follows the dialogue closely, and his interpretation unfolds gradually, as he is providing a detailed summary of the Lysis itself. Mr. Bolotin's translation captures the playfulness and rich ambiguities of the Lysis and its effectiveness as conversational drama. His book, written with precision and clarity, should be useful to students of political philosophy and ancient philosophy.
Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited
Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited write by Beatriz Bossi. This book was released on 2020-10-12. Plato’s ›Theaetetus‹ Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book meets the need to revise the standard interpretations of an apparently aporetic dialogue, full of eloquent silences and tricky suggestions, as it explores, among many other topics, the dramatis personae, including Plato's self-references behind the scene and the role of Socrates on stage, the question of method and refutation and the way dialectics plays a part in the dialogue. More especifically, it contains a set of papers devoted to perception and Plato's criticism of Heraclitus and Protagoras. A section deals with the problem of the relation between knowledge and thinking, including the the aviary model and the possibility of error. It also emphasizes some positive contributions to the classical Platonic doctrines and his philosophy of education. The reception of the dialogue in antiquity and the medieval age closes the analysis. Representing different hermeneutical traditions, prestigious scholars engage with these issues in divergent ways, as they shed new light on a complex controversial work.
Plato and Nietzsche
Plato and Nietzsche - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato and Nietzsche write by Mark Anderson. This book was released on 2014-10-23. Plato and Nietzsche available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduces the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche providing an original exploration of their ideas in dialogue and debate.
Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato
Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato write by Kevin Crotty. This book was released on 2022-11-08. Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Socrates famously claimed that he knew nothing, and that wisdom consisted in awareness of one’s ignorance. In Ignorance, Irony and Knowledge in Plato, Kevin Crotty makes the case for the centrality and fruitfulness of Socratic ignorance throughout Plato’s philosophical career. Knowing that you don’t know is more than a maxim of intellectual humility; Plato shows how it lies at the basis of all the virtues, and inspires dialogue, the best and most characteristic activity of the philosophical life. Far from being simply a lack or deficit, ignorance is a necessary constituent of genuine knowledge. Crotty explores the intricate ironies involved in the paradoxical relationship of ignorance and knowledge. He argues, further, that Plato never abandoned the historical Socrates to pursue his own philosophical agenda. Rather, his philosophical career can be largely understood as a progressive deepening of his appreciation of Socratic ignorance. Crotty presents Plato as a forerunner of the scholarly interest in ignorance that has gathered force in a wide variety of disciplines over the last 20 years.
