Plato - Arguments of the philosophers - 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 - Arguments of the philosophers write by Gosling. This book was released on 2010-07-13. Plato - Arguments of the philosophers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This volume is intended as a critical discussion of some of Plato’s central philosophical theses.
Plato on the Value of Philosophy
Plato on the Value of Philosophy - 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 on the Value of Philosophy write by Tushar Irani. This book was released on 2017-03-30. Plato on the Value of Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.
Plato's Arguments for Forms
Plato's Arguments for Forms - 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 Arguments for Forms write by Robert William Jordan. This book was released on 2020-08-30. Plato's Arguments for Forms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If we are to understand why Plato had a theory of Forms, we must explain, firstly, why he thought it necessary to depart from the ontology of the Socratic dialogues; secondly, why he then posited the existence of entities that have the characteristics that he ascribes to Forms (entities that are 'unmixed', 'unchanging', 'in every way being' and so on); and thirdly, why Plato took this course when other philosophers have not done so (and even he himself and his immediate pupils were later to modify or abandon the theory). In this study, Robert William Jordan discovers an answer to these questions where we might expect to find one - namely in the arguments Plato gives us in favour of the hypothesis that there are Forms. These arguments, on analysis, reveal not just a concern with the nature of knowledge and explanation, but an interest in the analysis of the apparent contradictions that Plato in his middle period thought to be presented to the intellect by the sensible world. These contradictions, he then thought, could not be resolved except by those with knowledge of the Forms.
Philosophers in the "Republic"
Philosophers in the "Republic" - 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 Philosophers in the "Republic" write by Roslyn Weiss. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Philosophers in the "Republic" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Plato’s Republic Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind’s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and are appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt the wisdom of entrusting to them the governance of cities. Although it is widely—and reasonably—assumed that all the Republic’s philosophers are the same, Roslyn Weiss argues in this boldly original book that the Republic actually contains two distinct and irreconcilable portrayals of the philosopher. According to Weiss, Plato’s two paradigms of the philosopher are the "philosopher by nature" and the "philosopher by design." Philosophers by design, as the allegory of the Cave vividly shows, must be forcibly dragged from the material world of pleasure to the sublime realm of the intellect, and from there back down again to the "Cave" to rule the beautiful city envisioned by Socrates and his interlocutors. Yet philosophers by nature, described earlier in the Republic, are distinguished by their natural yearning to encounter the transcendent realm of pure Forms, as well as by a willingness to serve others—at least under appropriate circumstances. In contrast to both sets of philosophers stands Socrates, who represents a third paradigm, one, however, that is no more than hinted at in the Republic. As a man who not only loves "what is" but is also utterly devoted to the justice of others—even at great personal cost—Socrates surpasses both the philosophers by design and the philosophers by nature. By shedding light on an aspect of the Republic that has escaped notice, Weiss’s new interpretation will challenge Plato scholars to revisit their assumptions about Plato’s moral and political philosophy.
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 2014-08-28. Plato and Nietzsche available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.
