Image and Reality in Plato's Metaphysics
Author | : Richard Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward N. Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Thomas Pfau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2022-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780268202484 |
Thomas Pfau's study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the word "image" (eikōn) not only as the essential medium of art and literature but as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our "lifeworld," Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato's later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image (eikōn) as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function, namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau's previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensive Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004345019 |
Plato is well known both for the harsh condemnations of images and image-making poets that appear in his dialogues and for the vivid and intense imagery that he himself uses in his matchless prose. Through their resemblance to true reality, images have the power to move their viewers to action and to change themselves, but because of their distance from true reality, that power always remains problematic. Two recurrent problems addressed here are how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents. Plato and the Power of Images comprises twelve chapters on the ways Plato has used images, and the ways we could, or should, understand their status as images.
Author | : David K. Ambuel |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2007-06-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972520 |
The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretation. The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. In a new translation and interpretation, this late dialogue is shown to be a defense of not a departure from Plato's metaphysics. The book is intended to provide a complete interpretation of Plato's Sophist as a whole. Central to the methodology adopted is the assumption that all elements of the dialogue to be understood must be understood in the context of the dialogue as a whole and in its relation to other works in the Platonic corpus.
Author | : Gerd Van Riel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317079922 |
This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.
Author | : Dan Strutt |
Publisher | : Film Culture in Transition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789462987135 |
This book explores how digital image-making is integral to emergent modes of metaphysical reflection - to speculative futurism, optimistic nihilism, and ethical plasticity.
Author | : Paul Davies |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107684536 |
From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.
Author | : Nicholas Rescher |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498585116 |
As a study in the methodology of metaphysics, the book seeks to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. It unfolds a train of thought to show that Reality both exists and has the nature it does for good reason, and specifically because this is somehow for the best.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780684143217 |