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Author | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780226075198 |
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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 | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Luc Brisson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226075389 |
Download How Philosophers Saved Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.
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 | : Catherine Collobert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2012-02-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 900422436X |
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This volume seeks to show how the philosophy of Plato relates to the literary form of his discourse. Myth is one aspect of this relation whose importance for the study of Plato is only now beginning to be recognized. Reflection on this topic is essential not only for understanding Plato’s conception of philosophy and its methods, but also for understanding more broadly the relation between philosophy and literature. The twenty chapters of this volume, contributed by scholars of diverse backgrounds and approaches, elucidate the various uses and statuses of Platonic myths in the first place by reflecting on myth per se and in the second place by focusing on a specific myth in the Platonic corpus.
Author | : Harald Haarmann |
Publisher | : Harrassowitz |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 9783447103626 |
Download Myth as Source of Knowledge in Early Western Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The perception of intellectual life in Greek antiquity by the representatives of the European Enlightenment of the 18th century favoured the establishment of the cult of reason. Myth as a potential source of knowledge was disregarded: instead, the monopoly of truth-finding through pure rationalisation was asserted. This tendency, positing, as it did, reason in opposition to myth, did a signal disservice to the realities of intellectual life among the ancient Greeks. Nevertheless, these distortions of the Enlightenment have conditioned our approach to education and have led to our privileging of reason as a mode of enquiry right up to the present day. The ancient Greek intellectuals (i.e. the pre-Socratic philosophers, the early historiographers, philosophers of the classical age) did not set myth (mythos) and reason (logos) in opposition to each other. In fact, they benefited from both as differing modes of enquiry, each in its own right and possessing its own value. Plato, in his reasoning, was much concerned with the proper use of mythical narrative. In one of his dialogues, he even coined a new term for explaining how mythical topics and motifs should be exploited as a source of knowledge. This term is mythologia, and it first occurs in Plato's Republic (394b). The present study aims to offer a corrective to traditional cliches and received wisdom about intellectual life in ancient Greece. The work proposes, and aims to reconstruct, a mental landscape in which myth and reason connect and vividly interact, and in which the concepts of mythos and logos are intertwined in the terminological network of the ancient Greek language.
Author | : Andrea Wilson Nightingale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-04-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521774338 |
Download Genres in Dialogue Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues. The author argues that Plato's 'dialogues' with traditional genres are part and parcel of his effort to define 'philosophy'. Before Plato, 'philosophy' designated 'intellectual cultivation' in the broadest sense. When Plato appropriated the term for his own intellectual project, he created a new and specialised discipline. In order to define and legitimise 'philosophy', Plato had to match it against genres of discourse that had authority and currency in democratic Athens. By incorporating the text or discourse of another genre, Plato 'defines' his new brand of wisdom in opposition to traditional modes of thinking and speaking. By targeting individual genres of discourse Plato marks the boundaries of 'philosophy' as a discursive and as a social practice.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Cambridge Platonists |
ISBN | : |
Download The Myths of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.