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In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position--a vision full of concern not only for the human community, but for the desires of women themselves. --! From back cover.
Women. --- Plato. --- Republic (Plato)
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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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In this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position--a vision full of concern not only for the human community, but for the desires of women themselves. --! From back cover.
Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Plato --- Women. --- Plato. --- Republic (Plato)
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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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This new examination of the Republic begins with questions ignored by most students of this famous and much-studied dialogue. Why is Plato's most extensive portrait of philosophy pervaded with the language and imagery of war? Why is a discussion supposedly about justice almost entirely about how to educate natural warriors? Why must the philosopher-kings of Kallipolis be first of all 'champions of war'? Why is the supposedly 'feminine drama' of Book Five preoccupied with war? The pursuit of questions such as these brings Craig to an understanding of Plato's teaching about justice, philosophy, and politics that differs radically from what is generally held today. The search for why the Republic's philosophers come from the ranks of 'war lovers' leads Craig to reassess the relation between the 'city in logos' and timocracy (the regime openly dedicated to war), and this reassessment in turn brings a new perspective on Plato's political thought in general. Similarly, analysis of the timocratic man leads to a deeper understanding of the psychology on which the whole dialogue is based, especially its teaching about justice and its treatment of love. Following the dialogue's hint that language provides the 'tracks' of ideas, Craig compares the four distinct kinds of love that figure in the dialogue, and thereby helps clarify several puzzling issues, not the least of which is the strange kinship between the philosopher and the tyrant. And through examining the peculiar problems posed by what he argues are two distinct kinds of timocrats - exemplified by Glaukon and Adeimantos - Craig illuminates the rationale underlying both educational schemes sketched in the dialogue: the political one of Books Two and Three and the pre-philosophical one of Book Seven. One chapter explores the analogical and allegorical dimensions of Book Five, as well as its actual political implications; there Craig offers clarification of the contemporary debate about sex roles. In bringing the Republic vividly to life, Craig shows that Plato's ideas on virtually all questions of permanent interest to human beings provide a corrective to views now in vogue. The War Lover is thus as much a commentary on contemporary intellectual and political life as it is a challenging new interpretation of an ancient text.
Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Plato. --- Plato - Republic --- Republic (Plato) --- Politeia (Plato) --- Respublica (Plato) --- Polity (Plato) --- Res publica (Plato) --- Platonis Res publica (Plato) --- Platonis Politia (Plato) --- Politia (Plato) --- De republica (Plato) --- Platonis Rei publicae libri decem (Plato) --- Kukka (Plato) --- Civitas (Plato) --- Platōnos Politeia (Plato) --- Platonis Civitas (Plato) --- Medinah (Plato)
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This volume is intended to accompany the new Oxford edition of Plato's Republic , published in 2003. It is based on a series of ten articles in Mnemosyne , dating from 1988 to 2003. It contains discussions of textual problems of various kinds. Much attention is paid to Plato's use of particles, to the moods and tenses of the verb, and to pragmatics and style. Moreover, the transmission of the text receives ample attention. The book is highly recommended for users of the new edition of the Republic , for those interested in the transmission of the Platonic corpus and in Platonic Greek and for students of linguistics in general.
Transmission of texts --- Transmission de textes --- Plato. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Plato --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Greece --- Transmission of texts. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Republic (Plato) --- Politeia (Plato) --- Respublica (Plato) --- Polity (Plato) --- Res publica (Plato) --- Platonis Res publica (Plato) --- Platonis Politia (Plato) --- Politia (Plato) --- De republica (Plato) --- Platonis Rei publicae libri decem (Plato) --- Kukka (Plato) --- Civitas (Plato) --- Platōnos Politeia (Plato) --- Platonis Civitas (Plato) --- Medinah (Plato) --- Greece. --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Transmission of texts - Greece.
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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 recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essential to any critical, moderate, and self-reflexive democratic practice. Through a careful study of Plato's Gorgias, Tarnopolsky shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. For Plato, three kinds of shame and shaming practices were possible in democracies, and only one of these is similar to the form condemned by contemporary thinkers. Following Plato, Tarnopolsky develops an account of a different kind of shame, which she calls "respectful shame." This practice involves the painful but beneficial shaming of one's fellow citizens as part of the ongoing process of collective deliberation. And, as Tarnopolsky argues, this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form. Tarnopolsky also challenges the view that the Gorgias inaugurates the problematic oppositions between emotion and reason, and rhetoric and philosophy. Instead, she shows that, for Plato, rationality and emotion belong together, and she argues that political science and democratic theory are impoverished when they relegate the study of emotions such as shame to other disciplines.
Democracy - Philosophy. --- Democracy -- Philosophy. --- Plato. --- Plato. Gorgias. --- Shame - Political aspects. --- Shame -- Political aspects. --- Shame --- Democracy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Political aspects --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Emotions --- Guilt --- Ad hominem. --- Allan Bloom. --- Ambiguity. --- Ambivalence. --- Anger. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Bernard Williams. --- Callicles. --- Catamite. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Child abuse. --- Civility. --- Conflation. --- Controversy. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Crito. --- Deliberation. --- Demagogue. --- Dialectic. --- Dichotomy. --- Direction of fit. --- Disgust. --- Disposition. --- Distrust. --- Elitism. --- Embarrassment. --- False-consensus effect. --- Forensic rhetoric. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Freedom of speech. --- Gorgias (dialogue). --- Gorgias. --- Grandiosity. --- Gregory Vlastos. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hedonism. --- Hippias Major. --- Human Rights Watch. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Inference. --- Irony. --- Jon Elster. --- McGill University. --- Morality. --- Multitude. --- Myth. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Omnipotence. --- On the Soul. --- Ostracism. --- Pathos. --- Perversion. --- Phaedo. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Pity. --- Pleonexia. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Polus. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protagoras. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychotherapy. --- Public sphere. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Reintegrative shaming. --- Republic (Plato). --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Self-criticism. --- Self-deception. --- Self-esteem. --- Self-image. --- Shame. --- Social stigma. --- Socratic (Community). --- Socratic method. --- Socratic. --- Sophism. --- Sophist. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Symposium (Plato). --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thrasymachus. --- Uncertainty. --- Vlastos. --- Vulnerability.
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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.
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Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history.This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Conflict (Psychology) in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Aristotle. --- Aeschylus. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Anguish. --- Antinomy. --- Antithesis. --- Appeal to emotion. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Averroes. --- Bussy D'Ambois. --- Catharsis. --- Characters of Shakespear's Plays. --- Classical unities. --- Classicism. --- Closed circle. --- Coluccio Salutati. --- Consciousness. --- Contemptus mundi. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Decorum. --- Deontological ethics. --- Dialectic. --- Disputation. --- Dissoi logoi. --- Divine law. --- Dramatic theory. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Euripides. --- Existentialism. --- Externality. --- Francis Fergusson. --- Good and evil. --- Greek tragedy. --- Hamartia. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hedonism. --- Hegelianism. --- Hubris. --- Intentionality. --- Irony. --- Irrational Man. --- Irrationality. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jean Hyppolite. --- Karl Jaspers. --- King Lear. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Lodovico Castelvetro. --- Mental space. --- Mimesis. --- Moral absolutism. --- Moral realism. --- Morality. --- Myth. --- New Thought. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- On Truth. --- Pathos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Platitude. --- Plautus. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Prohairesis. --- Quintilian. --- Rationality. --- Renaissance tragedy. --- Republic (Plato). --- Revenge tragedy. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Sophocles. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Suffering. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Teleology. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. --- The Philosopher. --- Theodicy. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Thought. --- Tragic hero. --- Verisimilitude. --- W. D. Ross. --- William Prynne. --- William Shakespeare.
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