Platonic Studies of Greek Philosophy

Form, Arts, Gadgets, and Hemlock

Robert S. Brumbaugh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

1989
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-88706-897-3 (ISBN)

Autor

Robert S. Brumbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

Inhalt

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Reinterpreting Plato's Republic



1. A New Interpretation of Plato's Republic
2. Interpreting Book V When the Republic is Read as Dialectic
3. Republic VI: The Divided Line
4. Republic VII: The Ideal Curriculum and Education
5. Republic VIII-IX: On Mathematical Imagery

Part II: On Some Platonic Questions

6. Doctrine and Dramatic Dates in Plato's Later Dialogues
7. Diction and Dialectic: A Note on the Sophist
8. Plato's Atlantis: Myth or History?
9. The Text and Intention of Plato's Parmenides

Part III: Platonic Thoughts about Aristotle

10. If Aristotle Had Become Head of the Academy...
11. The Unity of Aristotle's Metaphysics
12. Aristotle as a Mathematician

Part IV: Ideal Form in a World of Gadgets

13. The World of the Greek Philosophers and the Sense of Form
14. Classical Gadgets, the Hardware of Early Western Science
15. Scientific Apparatus Onstage in 423 BC
16. Plato's Relation to the Arts and Crafts

Part V: The Feminine, Genres, and Once Again the Hemlock

17. Four Definitions of Women in Classical Philosophy
18. Philosophy and Literary Style: Two Paradigms of Classical Examples
19. The Trial of Socrates

Epilogue. All the Great Ideas

A Postscript. My Final Lecture on the History of Ancient Philosophy

Notes

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.1989
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Figures
• Verlagsort: Albany, NY
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 590 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• ISBN-10: 0-88706-897-9 / 0887068979
• ISBN-13: 978-0-88706-897-3 / 9780887068973
• Zustand: Neuware