Platonic Questions - 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 Platonic Questions write by Diskin Clay. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Platonic Questions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought to be conveyed by the content of the dialogues. A distinguished classicist here offers an approach to understanding Plato that tries to do full justice to the form of Platonic philosophy, appreciated against the background of Greek literature and history, while also giving proper due to the important philosophic content of the dialogues. The book deals in turn with Plato's relation to and portraits of Socrates, the literary and philosophical character of the dialogues (including the problems of interpreting a philosopher who never speaks in his own name), and the modes of argumentation employed in the dialogues as well as some of their major themes.
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without 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 Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato write by Yehuda Halper. This book was released on 2021-11-01. Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.
Plato and the Question of Beauty
Plato and the Question of Beauty - 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 the Question of Beauty write by Drew A. Hyland. This book was released on 2008-05-28. Plato and the Question of Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us something important about beauty—that it cannot be reduced to logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.
Platonic Engagements
Platonic Engagements - 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 Platonic Engagements write by M. Francis Reeves. This book was released on 2004. Platonic Engagements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Platonic Engagements, Helen, a college senior majoring in business and philosophy, raises central questions about ideal individual morality, social justice, education, political philosophies and management based on Plato's principles in the Republic. Plato's moral relevance to current issues in democratic capitalism is put to the test in this contemporary philosophical dialogue.
Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic questions
Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic questions - 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 Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic questions write by Plutarch. This book was released on 2000. Plutarch's Moralia: pt. 1. Platonic questions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
