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Author | : Daniel S. Werner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2012-07-09 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1107021286 |
Download Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.
Author | : Catherine Collobert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2012-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004218661 |
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Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.
Author | : Catalin Partenie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-12-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107404076 |
Download Plato's Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In archaic societies myths were believed to tell true stories - stories about the ultimate origin of reality. For us, on the contrary, the term 'myth' denotes a false belief. Between the archaic notion of myth and ours stands Plato's. This volume is a collection of ten studies by eminent scholars that focus on the ways in which some of Plato's most famous myths are interwoven with his philosophy. The myths discussed include the eschatological myths of the Gorgias, the Phaedo, the Republic and Laws 10, the central myths of the Phaedrus and the Statesman, and the so-called myth of the Noble Lie from the Republic. The mythical character of the Timaeus cosmology is also amply discussed. The volume also contains seventeen rare Renaissance illustrations of Platonic myths. The contributors argue that in Plato myth and philosophy are tightly bound together, despite Plato's occasional claim that they are opposed modes of discourse.
Author | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226075198 |
Download Plato the Myth Maker Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Author | : Tae-Yeoun Keum |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674984641 |
Download Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato’s basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others, such as Karl Popper, have railed against the deceptive power of myth, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. Tae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More, Bacon, Leibniz, the German Idealists, Cassirer, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking.
Author | : Kathryn A. Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2000-08-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139427520 |
Download Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is found to be more extensive and programmatic than has been recognized. The story of philosophy's relationship with myth is that of its relationship with literary and social convention. The intellectuals studied here wanted to reformulate popular ideas about cultural authority and they achieved this goal by manipulating myth. Their self-conscious use of myth creates a self-reflective philosophic sensibility and draws attention to problems inherent in different modes of linguistic representation. Much of the reception of Greek philosophy stigmatizes myth as 'irrational'. Such an approach ignores the important role played by myth in Greek philosophy, not just as a foil but as a mode of philosophical thought. The case studies in this book reveal myth deployed as a result of methodological reflection, and as a manifestation of philosophical concerns.
Author | : Plato, |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019955255X |
Download Selected Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths, from eight of Plato's dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They include the famous myth of the cave from Republic as well as 'The Judgement of Souls' and 'The Birth of Love'. Each myth is a self-contained story, prefaced by a short explanatory note, while the introduction considers Plato's use of myth and imagery.
Author | : Claudia Baracchi |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2002-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253214858 |
Download Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This reading of Plato's Republic illuminates the power of myth in the shaping of history. It demonstrates the pervasiveness of myth in Plato's dialogues as well as within philosophy generally.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Cambridge Platonists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Settegast |
Publisher | : SteinerBooks |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1621511987 |
Download Plato Prehistorian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilizations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato, Prehistorian, Mary Settegast takes us from the cave paintings of Lascaux to the shrines of Çatalhöyük, demonstrating correspondences both to Plato's tale and to the mystery religions of antiquity. She then traces the mid-seventh millennium impulse that revitalized the spiritual life of Çatalhöyük and spread agriculture from Iran to the Greek Peninsula --at precisely the time given by Aristotle for the legendary Persian prophet Zarathustra, for whom the cultivation of the earth was a religious imperative. This new edition of Mary Settegast's ground-breaking synthesis of classical and archaeological scholarship features an appendix by Alistair Coombs on the recent excavations at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey, which have upended the conventional view of the rise of civilization.