[PDF] Plato Critical Assessments eBook

Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Filosofía griega
ISBN : 9780415126052

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This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstanding works published in other languages.

Author : Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415126052

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This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstanding works published in other languages.

Author : Mark L. McPherran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521491908

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The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.

Author : James Orr
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351353349

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The Republic is Plato's most complete and incisive work – a detailed study of the problem of how best to ensure that justice exists in a real society, rather than as merely the product of an idealized philosophical construct. The work considers several competing definitions of justice, and looks closely not only at what exactly a "just life" should be, but also at the ways in which society can organise itself in ways that maximise the opportunities for every member to live justly. Much of the discussion is via imagined dialogues, giving Plato the opportunity to deploy the tools of Socratic debate to remarkable effect; nowhere else, it can be argued, is the Socratic dialectic better exemplified than in The Republic. In large measure, Plato's success is the product of the acute analytical ability that he demonstrates throughout his surviving oeuvre. No one is better at understanding the relationships between the various parts of a successful argument than Plato, and The Republic also demonstrates the Greek philosopher has few peers when it comes to looking for and highlighting the core assumptions that underlie an argument. The demolition of competing views that Plato puts into the mouth of Socrates is based on a series of relentless interventions and counter-examples that this mastery makes possible. Combining analytical skills with great powers of reasoning to produce a well-structured solution that deals emphatically with counter-arguments, Plato crafts one of the most enduring works of philosophy in the entire western canon.

Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107525696

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Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'human desire' - which can refer both to physical desire or desire for happiness. They reveal thematic continuities between the prologue and the various speeches as well as between the speeches themselves, and present a rich collection of contrasting yet complementary readings of Diotima's speech. The volume will be invaluable for classicists and philosophers alike, and for all who are interested in one of Plato's most fascinating and challenging dialogues.