Plato's Laughter - 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 Laughter write by Sonja Madeleine Tanner. This book was released on 2017-11-14. Plato's Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato's dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles, philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialogues—both explicit and implied—suggests a view of human nature as incongruous with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding, our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates' own, laughable depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides, Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing Plato's laughter.
Plato's Critique of Impure Reason
Plato's Critique of Impure Reason - 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 Critique of Impure Reason write by D. C. Schindler. This book was released on 2008. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the "real image" of the good
The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists
The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists - 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 The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists write by James Warren. This book was released on 2014-11-27. The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Plato's Reasons
Plato's Reasons - 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 Reasons write by Christopher W. Tindale. This book was released on 2023-12-01. Plato's Reasons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.
Plato at the Googleplex
Plato at the Googleplex - 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 at the Googleplex write by Rebecca Goldstein. This book was released on 2014. Plato at the Googleplex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
