The Platonic Idiom

The Platonic Idiom
Title The Platonic Idiom PDF eBook
Author Samuel Louis Dael
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 377
Release 2009-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 0615246745

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Plato became the master for every dictator by sidesteping the Socratic method in his platonic state. Plato invented the subjective in an attempt to demean the objective and shuffle away the predicate philosophy of Socrates. The Platonic Idiom expreses the infirmity of western civilization.

The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages

The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages
Title The Platonic Tradition in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Stephen Gersh
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 476
Release 2013-02-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 3110908492

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This collection of essays delineates the history of the rather disparate intellectual tradition usually labeled as "Platonic" or "Neoplatonic". In chronological order, the book covers the most eminent philosophic schools of thought within that tradition. The most important terms of the Platonic tradition are studied together with a discussion of their semantic implications, the philosophical and theological claims associated with the terms, the sources that furnish the terms, and the intellectual traditions aligned with or opposed to them. The contributors thereby provide a vivid intellectual map of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Contributions are written in English or German.

The Way of the Platonic Socrates

The Way of the Platonic Socrates
Title The Way of the Platonic Socrates PDF eBook
Author S. Montgomery Ewegen
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 177
Release 2020-09-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0253047595

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“This extraordinary new work” by the philosopher and author of Plato’s Cratylus “has given us nothing less than a radically new Socrates” (Michael Naas, author of Plato and the Invention of Life). Who is Socrates? While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato’s work, he is hard to characterize. In this book, S. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once again. Reading Socrates against a number of Platonic texts, Ewegen sets out to understand the way of Socrates. Looking closely at the Socrates that emerges from the dramatic and philosophical contexts of Plato’s works, Ewegen considers questions of withdrawal, retreat, powerlessness, poverty, concealment, and release and how they construct a new view of this powerful but strange and uncanny figure. Ewegen’s withdrawn Socrates forever evades rigid interpretation and must instead remain a deep and insoluble question.

The Platonic Theages

The Platonic Theages
Title The Platonic Theages PDF eBook
Author Mark Joyal
Publisher Franz Steiner Verlag
Pages 340
Release 2000
Genre History
ISBN 9783515072304

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This is the first comprehensive study of the Theages, a dialogue whose Platonic authorship was not questioned in antiquity but has been doubted by most modern scholars. The book's introductory chapters confront such problems as the dialogue's purpose and meaning, its authenticity and date of composition, its depiction of Socrates' divine sign, and its relation to other Platonic and Socratic literature. The commentary deals in detail with a wide range of philosophical, philological and literary questions. A new text is also offered here, the first to be founded upon a complete knowledge of the manuscript tradition. "Joyal's commentary is the first work that has done justice to the Theages as a genuine document of Ancient Greek rather than as a work to insult and denigrate because it does not reach the heights of the best Platonic dialogues. Philologists and philosophers can gain immeasurably from Joyal's work." Gnomon "There can be no doubt that this edition will stand for many decades as the standard work" The Heythrop Journal "For anyone who does serious work on the language or text of Plato, and anyone who wants to explore an early monument of Socrates' transition from hero to saint, this ambitious study will yield years of profit.� Classical World "�this is certainly an important book and will be of enormous interest to students of Plato" Scripta Classica Israelica "�the edition is a pleasure to use, and an important tool of scholarship. It made me think. What more could one want?" Phoenix .

The Phaedo of Plato

The Phaedo of Plato
Title The Phaedo of Plato PDF eBook
Author Plato
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 1904
Genre Immortality
ISBN

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On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus

On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus
Title On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus PDF eBook
Author John Cook Wilson
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 1889
Genre
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Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
Title Studies in Plato and the Platonic Tradition PDF eBook
Author Mark Joyal
Publisher Routledge
Pages 332
Release 2017-07-28
Genre History
ISBN 1351897357

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This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers. It ranges from the discussion of issues in individual Platonic dialogues to the examination of Platonism in the Middle Ages. The essays are written by leading scholars in the field and reflect the current state of knowledge on the various problems under discussion. The collection as a whole testifies to the importance of the Platonic writings for the history of ideas, and to the vitality that the study of these writings continues to possess.