Emotions in Plato

Laura Candiotto, Olivier Renaut (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

404 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42943-7 (ISBN)

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Emotions in Plato, through a detailed analysis of emotions such as shame, anger, fear, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship, offers a fresh account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory.

Emotions (pathè) such as anger, fear, shame, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship have long been underestimated in Plato’s philosophy. The aim of Emotions in Plato is to provide a consistent account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory. The volume focuses on three main issues: taxonomy of emotions, their epistemic status, and their relevance for the ethical and political theory and practice. This volume, which is the first edited volume entirely dedicated to emotions in Plato’s philosophy, shows how Plato, in many aspects, was positively interested in these affective states in order to support the rule of reason.

"Emotions in Plato is a rich and illuminating book, which will probably make not a few readers change their view of Plato’s attitude to emotions."

-Margalit Finkelberg, Tel Aviv University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.10.16

Laura Candiotto, PhD. (2011), Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, published many articles on emotions in Plato and in contemporary philosophy; she recently edited The Value of Emotions for Knowledge (Palgrave, 2019). Olivier Renaut, PhD. (2007), is Maître de conférences at Université Paris Nanterre in France. He published a comprehensive study of thumos in Plato entitled Platon, La Médiation des émotions. L’éducation du thymos dans les dialogues (Vrin, 2014).

Introduction: Why Plato Comes First

Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut

Part 1: For a Taxonomy of Plato’s Emotions

1 Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato’s Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance

Laura Candiotto and Vasilis Politis

2 The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato’s Critique of Poetry

Pia Campeggiani

3 Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation

Freya Möbus

4 Emotions in Context: “Risk” as Condition for Emotion

Stefano Maso

Part 2: Plato’s Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality

5 Emotions and Rationality in theTimaeus(Ti. 42a–b, 69c–72e)

Olivier Renaut

6 On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition

Lidia Palumbo and Anna Motta

7 Plato’s Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato’s Laws

Myrthe L. Bartels

8 The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus

Karine Tordo-Rombaut

9 Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions

Carla Francalanci

Part 3: The Ethical and Political Value of Plato’s Emotions

10 The Notion of Φθόνος in Plato

Luc Brisson

11 On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d–50e)

Beatriz Bossi

12 Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato’s Republic

Chiara Militello

13 Shame and Virtue in Plato’s Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet

Julia Pfefferkorn

14 Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato’s Phaedrus

Simon Scott

15 Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development

Marta Jimenez

16 Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue

Rachana Kamtekar

17 Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato’s Laws

Frisbee C.C. Sheffield

Afterword: The Invention of Emotion?

David Konstan

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Relevant Passages

Index of Subjects

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Plato Studies Series ; 4
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-42943-3 / 9004429433
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42943-7 / 9789004429437
Zustand	Neuware