The Republic
The Republic

Author: By Plato

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2019-06-15

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 3736801467

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The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.

Platon: Politeia
Platon: Politeia

Author: Otfried Höffe

Publisher: Oldenbourg Verlag

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 3050050268

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Platons Politeia gehört zu den bedeutendsten und wirkungsreichsten Texten der Philosophigeschichte. Unter der Leitfrage nach der Gerechtigkeit weist Platon traditionelle Auffassungen zurück und leistet eine Sophistenkritik; er entwickelt im Anschluß dann seine Lehre von den drei Seelenteilen und die Lehre von den vier Kardinaltugenden. Er skizziert eine Erziehungstheorie, eine Staatsphilosophie mit der Lehre von der Philosophenherrschaft, eine Erkenntnistheorie und die Ideenlehre. Vor allem enthält die Politeia Platons bekannteste Gleichnisse von der Sonne, der Linie und der Höhle. In Form eines kooperativen Kommentars führen anerkannte Platon-Interpreten in die Hauptthemen der Politeia und die wichtigsten Forschungsprobleme ein. Aus dem Inhalt: Otfried Höffe: Einführung in Platons Politeia Eckart Schütrumpf: Konventionelle Vorstellungen über Gerechtigkeit (Buch I) Bernhard Williams: Plato against the Immoralist (Book 11 357a-367e) Otfried Höffe: Zur Analogie von Individuum und Polis (Buch II 367e-374d) Monique Canto-Sperber/Lue Brisson: Zur sozialen Gliederung der Polis (Buch II 372d-IV 427c) Terena H. lrwin: The Parts of the Soul and the Cardinal Virtues (Book IV 427d-448e) ]ulia Annas: Polities and Ethies in Plato's Republic (Book V 449a-471c) Robert Spaemann: Die Philosophenkönige (Buch V 473b-Vl504a) Hans Krämer: Die Idee des Guten. Sonnen- und Liniengleichnis (Buch VI 504a-51le) Thomas A. Szlezák: Das Höhlengleichnis (Buch VII 514a-521b, 539d-541b) Jürgen Mittelstraß: Die Dialektik und ihre wissenschaftlichen Vorübungen (Buch VI 510b- 511e, Buch VII 521 c-539d) Dorothea Frede: Die ungerechten Verfassungen und die ihnen entsprechenden Menschen (Buch VIII 543a-IX 576b) Richard Kraut: Plato's Comparison of Just and Unjust Lives (Book IX 576b-592b) Christoph Horn: Platons episteme-doxa-Unterscheidung und die Ideentheorie (Buch V 474b-480a, Buch X 595c-597e) Stephen Halliwell: The Republic’s Two Critiques of Poetry (Book II 376c-398b, X 595a-608b) Otfried Hoffe: Vier Kapitel einer Wirkungsgeschichte der Politeia

Plato and Nietzsche
Plato and Nietzsche

Author: Mark Anderson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1472532899

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It is commonly known that Nietzsche is one of Plato's primary philosophical antagonists, yet there is no full-length treatment in English of their ideas in dialogue and debate. Plato and Nietzsche is an advanced introduction to these two thinkers, with original insights and arguments interspersed throughout the text. Through a rigorous exploration of their ideas on art, metaphysics, ethics, and the nature of philosophy, and by explaining and analyzing each man's distinctive approach, Mark Anderson demonstrates the many and varied ways they play off against one another. This book provides the background necessary to understanding the principle matters at issue between these two philosophers and to developing an awareness that Nietzsche's engagement with Plato is deeper and more nuanced than it is often presented as being.

Platonica
Platonica

Author: Alice Swift Riginos

Publisher: Brill Archive

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9789004045651

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Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason
Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason

Author: Harald Haarmann

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 3487155427

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Platon zählt zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen aller Zeiten. Er beeinflusste maßgeblich Profil und Kanon der westlichen Philosophie. Die Kritik am sogenannten Platonismus wurde kontinuierlich von den Schwierigkeiten gespeist, die die Interpretation der philosophischen Schriften Platons bereitet. Gemeinhin wird er als rein rationaler Philosoph gesehen. Ein Philosoph war er in der Tat, ebenso jedoch ein Experte in der Annäherung an das Nicht-Rationale, unter anderem in Form von Mythen. So wurde er auch als "Mythenerfinder" und "Mythologe" bezeichnet. Platon war ein Visionär, der es wagte, das Reich des Nicht-Rationalen auf systematische und disziplinierte Art zu erforschen. Insgesamt lässt sich Platons philosophisches Vorhaben als Streben nach einer umfassenden Sicht des organischen Ganzen klassifizieren. Der Ausdruck „Gestalt“ scheint die Ganzheit am ehesten zu beschreiben. Platon kann als prominentester und auch als letzter Repräsentant der antiken Philosophie angesehen werden, der die Entwicklung einer Gestalt-Philosophie anstrebte. Plato is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He decisively shaped the profile and canon of western philosophy. Criticism of what has become known as Platonism has been continuously nourished by the difficulties of interpreting this philosopher's writings. Plato is commonly viewed as a purely rational philosopher. A philosopher he was indeed, but Plato was also an expert in approaching the non-rational, in the form of mythology among others. Plato has been called a "mythmaker" and a "mythologist". Plato was a visionary who dared to explore the realm of the non-rational in a systematic and disciplined way. In an overall comparison, Plato's philosophical enterprise strives for a comprehensive perspective on the organic whole. The expression "Gestalt" seems to come closest to describing the wholeness. Plato may be considered to be the most prominent representative of classical philosophy to develop a Gestalt philosophy and also the last to do so in antiquity.

Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics
Plato and the Foundations of Metaphysics

Author: Hans Joachim Krämer

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780791404331

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This is a book about the relationship of the two traditions of Platonic interpretation -- the indirect and the direct traditions, the written dialogues and the unwritten doctrines. Kramer, who is the foremost proponent of the Tubingen School of interpretation, presents the unwritten doctrines as the crown of Plato's system and the key revealing it. Kramer unfolds the philosophical significance of the unwritten doctrines in their fullness. He demonstrates the hermeneutic fruitfulness of the unwritten doctrines when applied to the dialogues. He shows that the doctrines are a revival of the presocratic theory renovated and brought to a new plane through Socrates. In this way, Plato emerges as the creator of classical metaphysics. In the Third Part, Kramer compares the structure of Platonism, as construed by the Tubingen School, with current philosophical structures such as analytic philosophy, Hegel, phenomenology, and Heidegger. Of the five appendices, the most important presents English translations of the ancient testimonies on the unwritten doctrines. These include the "self-testimonies of Plato." There is also a bibliography on the problem of the unwritten doctrines.

Truth and Mockery in Platon and in Modernity
Truth and Mockery in Platon and in Modernity

Author: Dale Wilt Evans

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0595176291

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The modern world is preoccupied with correctness in its views of nature, government, economy and culture but at an unacceptable price. We find nature blind and indifferent and we now see culture as anything legally allowed. This insightful study examines the philosophy leading us here while showing how to change it. If we accept the integral role of mockery in truth we gain a more comprehensive view of ourselves and the world. In a perceptive study of four dialogues of Plato---the ones telling the story of Socrates' defense of philosophy----we find a pattern for our own growth. This book calls for renewed faith in an educated perception and in noble self-development. It speaks to discovering "heart and soul, not in an aesthetic diversion but in the nature of everything around us."

Timaeus
Timaeus

Author: Plato

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-28

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Timaeus is a dialogue by the Greek philosopher Plato. Our main character Timaeus of Locri delivers a monologue that speculates on the nature of the physical world and human beings.