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"Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's philosophical argumentation. She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato is writing and then moves on to the main lines of argument and how they depend upon a variety of uses of the imagination, including paradigms, analogies, models, and myths. McCoy takes up the paradoxical nature of such key metaphysical images as the divided line and cave: on the one hand, the cave and divided line explicitly state problems with images and the visible realm. On the other hand, they are themselves images designed to draw the reader to greater intellectual understanding. The author gives a perspectival reading, arguing that the human being is always situated in between the transcendence of being and the limits of human perspective. Images can enhance our capacity to see intellectually as well as to reimagine ourselves vis-à-vis the timeless and eternal. Engaging with a wide range of continental, dramatic, and Anglo-American scholarship on images in Plato, McCoy examines the treatment of comedy, degenerate regimes, the nature of mimesis, the myth of Er, and the nature of Platonic dialogue itself."--Provided by publisher.

Republic (Plato) --- Plato. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Plato's Republic has proven to be of astounding influence and importance. Justly celebrated as Plato's central text, it brings together all of his prior works, unifying them into a comprehensive vision that is at once theological, philosophical, political and moral. The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting aspects of the Republic, and address questions that continue to puzzle and provoke, such as: Does Plato succeed in his argument that the life of justice is the most attractive one? Is his tripartite analysis of the soul coherent and plausible? Why does Plato seem to have to force his philosopher-guardians to rule when they know this is something that they ought to do? What is the point of the strange and complicated closing Myth of Er? This volume will be essential to those looking for thoughtful and detailed excursions into the problems posed by Plato's text and ideas.

Philosophie politique --- Morale politique --- Platon, --- Plato. --- Plato --- Philosophie politique. --- Morale politique. --- Republic (Plato). --- Political science --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- General ethics --- Plato --- Ethics, Ancient --- Political ethics --- Political science --- Morale ancienne --- Morale politique --- Science politique --- History --- Philosophy --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Plato. --- Ethics --- Political and social views --- -Plato --- -Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Contributions in political science --- -Ethics --- Aflāṭūn --- Ethics. --- Political and social views. --- Platon --- Platoon --- History. --- Платон --- プラトン --- Contributions in political science. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Ethik. --- Political science. --- Politische Philosophie. --- Plato, --- Laws (Plato). --- Phaedo (Plato). --- Republic (Plato). --- Plato - Ethics --- Plato - Political and social views --- Plato - Phaedo --- Plato - Republic --- Plato - Laws

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This is a collection of the late Heda Segvic's papers in ancient moral philosophy. At the time of her death at age forty-five in 2003, Segvic had already established herself as an important figure in ancient philosophy, making bold new arguments about the nature of Socratic intellectualism and the intellectual influences that shaped Aristotle's ideas. Segvic had been working for some time on a monograph on practical knowledge that would interpret Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. The essays collected here are those on which her reputation rests, including some that were intended to form the backbone of her projected monograph. The papers range from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation. Most of the papers reflect directly or indirectly Segvic's idea that both Socrates' and Aristotle's universalism and objectivism in ethics could be traced back to their opposition to Protagorean relativism. The book represents the considerable achievements of one of the most talented scholars of ancient philosophy of her generation.

Ethics --- History. --- Action theory (philosophy). --- Agency (philosophy). --- Akrasia. --- Alcibiades. --- Allusion. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Ancient philosophy. --- Apology (Plato). --- Aporia. --- Aristotelian ethics. --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Calculation. --- Callicles. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Causality. --- Chaerephon. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Charmides. --- Concept. --- Contradiction. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- David Wiggins. --- Determination. --- Dianoia. --- Discernment. --- Disposition. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Existence. --- Explanation. --- George Grote. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Greek mythology. --- Hedonism. --- Hexis. --- Hippias. --- Homer. --- Human Action. --- Hypothesis. --- Inference. --- Inquiry. --- Intellectualism. --- Kantian ethics. --- Logos. --- Metaphor. --- Moral relativism. --- Morality. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Pericles. --- Phaedo. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical analysis. --- Philosophy. --- Phronesis. --- Plato. --- Platonic Academy. --- Platonic realism. --- Polus. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Practical reason. --- Prodicus. --- Prohairesis. --- Protagoras. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Republic (Plato). --- Rhetoric. --- Self-actualization. --- Socratic dialogue. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic. --- Sophism. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophist. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Terence Irwin. --- The Death of Socrates. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Value (ethics). --- Value judgment. --- Virtue. --- Voluntariness. --- Voluntary action. --- W. D. Ross. --- Writing.

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In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.

Democracy --- History --- Plato --- Views on democracy --- -Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- -Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- History. --- Views on democracy. --- Self-government --- Aflāṭūn --- Plato. --- Platon --- Platoon --- Платон --- プラトン --- Democracy - Greece - Athens - History --- Plato - Views on democracy --- Aeschylus. --- Against Timarchus. --- Allan Bloom. --- Allegory of the Cave. --- Allusion. --- Ancient Greece. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Bribery. --- Callicles. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Citizenship. --- Classical Athens. --- Constitution of the Athenians. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- Criticism of democracy. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Deliberation. --- Democracy. --- Democratic ideals. --- Demosthenes. --- Ethics. --- Ethos. --- Euripides. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- Funeral oration (ancient Greece). --- Glaucon. --- Gorgias (dialogue). --- Gorgias. --- Greatness. --- Greek tragedy. --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture). --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton. --- Herodotus. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Imagery. --- Institution. --- Isocrates. --- Isonomia. --- Josiah Ober. --- Literature. --- Martha Nussbaum. --- Masculinity. --- Menexenus (dialogue). --- Metaphor. --- Metic. --- Multitude. --- Narrative. --- Oligarchy. --- One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parrhesia. --- Pederasty in ancient Greece. --- Pericles' Funeral Oration. --- Pericles. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pierre Vidal-Naquet. --- Platonic Academy. --- Political dissent. --- Political philosophy. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protagoras. --- Reason. --- Republic (Plato). --- Rhetoric. --- SAGE Publications. --- Self-image. --- Sheldon Wolin. --- Slavery. --- Socratic dialogue. --- Socratic. --- Sophist. --- Sophistication. --- Suggestion. --- The Erotic. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theatre of Dionysus. --- Themistocles. --- Theory. --- Thomas Pangle. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Tragedy. --- Tyrannicide. --- Tyrant. --- Voting. --- Wealth. --- Writing. --- Yale University Press.