Engaging Socrates by Joel Alden Schlosser
... In one set of familiar images of Socrates, he appears indoors, clean, self-possessed, and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philo ...
... In one set of familiar images of Socrates, he appears indoors, clean, self-possessed, and flanked by a coterie of admiring disciplines.4 In Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” for example, Socrates stands by Plato’s side ensconced in the calm confines of a palace surrounded by loquacious fellow philo ...
aiming at virtue in plato
... moral rules, containing only non-evaluative terms, that determine which actions are virtuous and which vicious. Indeed, for many contemporary scholars, it is an advantage of the ancients that they do not fall into what is seen as the trap of trying to supply determining principles, but instead focus ...
... moral rules, containing only non-evaluative terms, that determine which actions are virtuous and which vicious. Indeed, for many contemporary scholars, it is an advantage of the ancients that they do not fall into what is seen as the trap of trying to supply determining principles, but instead focus ...
Was Pyrrho the Founder of Skepticism?
... a dogmatist may be a typical mistake connected with the language difficulties of every speaking skeptic. Throughout its history, ancient skepticism struggled with the charge of negative dogmatism. For instance, Arcesilaus and Carneades tried to explain how they can be skeptics and live and philosoph ...
... a dogmatist may be a typical mistake connected with the language difficulties of every speaking skeptic. Throughout its history, ancient skepticism struggled with the charge of negative dogmatism. For instance, Arcesilaus and Carneades tried to explain how they can be skeptics and live and philosoph ...
Socrates Misinterpreted and Misapplied
... Socrates’ Arguments in the Crito In the Crito, Socrates personifies the Laws of Athens to offer two major arguments for obedience of the laws from agreement and from non-injury. The two arguments persuade Socrates’ friend Crito that despite Socrates’ belief that the verdict in his trial was unjust, ...
... Socrates’ Arguments in the Crito In the Crito, Socrates personifies the Laws of Athens to offer two major arguments for obedience of the laws from agreement and from non-injury. The two arguments persuade Socrates’ friend Crito that despite Socrates’ belief that the verdict in his trial was unjust, ...
D. C. Schindler Plato`s Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness
... out until later, Schindler incorporates the Protagoras of the Theaetetus into the discussion. For Schindler, Protagoras’ thesis pace knowledge that man is the measure is analogical to the same thesis, pace justice, with reference to Thrasymachus. So, even though Thrasymachus is explicit only about t ...
... out until later, Schindler incorporates the Protagoras of the Theaetetus into the discussion. For Schindler, Protagoras’ thesis pace knowledge that man is the measure is analogical to the same thesis, pace justice, with reference to Thrasymachus. So, even though Thrasymachus is explicit only about t ...
Conflicting Desires and Unstable Identities: Tensions in the Greek
... turns out, a number of the relationships in the text present problematic iterations of father-son relationships where there seems to have been a breakdown in the transmission of knowledge about virtue from father to son. When Socrates says that he is most proud of being a pimp, in an odd way he jus ...
... turns out, a number of the relationships in the text present problematic iterations of father-son relationships where there seems to have been a breakdown in the transmission of knowledge about virtue from father to son. When Socrates says that he is most proud of being a pimp, in an odd way he jus ...
Conflicting Desires and Unstable Identities: Tensions in the Greek
... turns out, a number of the relationships in the text present problematic iterations of father-son relationships where there seems to have been a breakdown in the transmission of knowledge about virtue from father to son. When Socrates says that he is most proud of being a pimp, in an odd way he jus ...
... turns out, a number of the relationships in the text present problematic iterations of father-son relationships where there seems to have been a breakdown in the transmission of knowledge about virtue from father to son. When Socrates says that he is most proud of being a pimp, in an odd way he jus ...
Alfarabi`s Conversion of Plato`s Republic
... every kind of deficiency, whereas there must be in everything else some kind of deficiency... the highest kind of excellence... perfect... without being in need to any other thing...what is perfect in beauty is that apart from which no beauty of its species exist” (Alfarabi, p. 57). These can be eas ...
... every kind of deficiency, whereas there must be in everything else some kind of deficiency... the highest kind of excellence... perfect... without being in need to any other thing...what is perfect in beauty is that apart from which no beauty of its species exist” (Alfarabi, p. 57). These can be eas ...
The Theaetetus as a Superior Apology.
... himself studying things in the sky and below the earth… makes the worse into the stronger argument and teaches these same things to others” has circulated from the time Socrates’ jurymen were children (18c). The charges of manipulating arguments and misleading students are serious enough, but what i ...
... himself studying things in the sky and below the earth… makes the worse into the stronger argument and teaches these same things to others” has circulated from the time Socrates’ jurymen were children (18c). The charges of manipulating arguments and misleading students are serious enough, but what i ...
Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato: Revisiting the Image of "Socrates
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
... creation of new ideas and processes. If one accepts the concept of absolute ideas, it is not possible to beyond these ideas without questioning and doubting their absoluteness” (39). ...
Glosses on Porphyry
... properties of the most special species, whereas Aristotle investigates the properties of genera; but nevertheless the nature of those properties [of genera] is made clear through the similarity of these [of the most special species], for the properties of genera are described in the same way as the ...
... properties of the most special species, whereas Aristotle investigates the properties of genera; but nevertheless the nature of those properties [of genera] is made clear through the similarity of these [of the most special species], for the properties of genera are described in the same way as the ...
Plato, Thucydides, and Alcibiades
... Of all the characters we encounter in the Socratic dialogues of Plato, no one, apart from Socrates himself, meant so much to – and evoked such mixed feelings among – Plato’s Athenian readership as the illustrious Alcibiades. A well-known character from our time, with whom one could make a comparison ...
... Of all the characters we encounter in the Socratic dialogues of Plato, no one, apart from Socrates himself, meant so much to – and evoked such mixed feelings among – Plato’s Athenian readership as the illustrious Alcibiades. A well-known character from our time, with whom one could make a comparison ...
Mimesis, Eros, and Mania
... come to be shaped, as we seek the intelligibilities of what is there at play in the milieu. Once again this is all “in the midst,” even though here a vector of transcending in thinking itself seeks to comprehend what is not articulately known by us as at play in the between. Philosophizing “in the m ...
... come to be shaped, as we seek the intelligibilities of what is there at play in the milieu. Once again this is all “in the midst,” even though here a vector of transcending in thinking itself seeks to comprehend what is not articulately known by us as at play in the between. Philosophizing “in the m ...
Structure and function in Plato`s "Republic"
... Books 1 and 10 of Plato's Republic have long been regarded as problematic when viewed alongside the Republic as a whole. Scholars have claimed that these books were originally written separately, that the placement of these books impedes and obscures the main portion of the work, or that the style a ...
... Books 1 and 10 of Plato's Republic have long been regarded as problematic when viewed alongside the Republic as a whole. Scholars have claimed that these books were originally written separately, that the placement of these books impedes and obscures the main portion of the work, or that the style a ...
Plato: The Human as Soul a. Life and Works of a Philosopher The
... immortality of his own soul. All present simply assume humans have souls. But there is good reason for this. Inanimate things like rocks act differently from animate things. A dog moves itself across the agora to sniff out Socrates; but he must throw a rock at the dog, it doesn't throw itself. There ...
... immortality of his own soul. All present simply assume humans have souls. But there is good reason for this. Inanimate things like rocks act differently from animate things. A dog moves itself across the agora to sniff out Socrates; but he must throw a rock at the dog, it doesn't throw itself. There ...
A Modern Worldview from Plato`s Cave
... spiritual world, where all things existed in their perfect Form.” 3 The Form was the perfect, unchanging, eternal essence while the physical representation of it in this world was imperfect and changeable. Strong continues, “Therefore, to Plato and his followers, the theoretical or mental was more r ...
... spiritual world, where all things existed in their perfect Form.” 3 The Form was the perfect, unchanging, eternal essence while the physical representation of it in this world was imperfect and changeable. Strong continues, “Therefore, to Plato and his followers, the theoretical or mental was more r ...
1 "Plato on Akrasia and Knowing Your Own Mind" Section 1
... X knows that A is best overall for X and better overall for X than B, knows that he can do either A or B, and does B under the influence of pleasure, pain etc.15 So this is not a case in which the person is pursuing pleasure, but simply has no view about whether in doing so he is also pursuing the g ...
... X knows that A is best overall for X and better overall for X than B, knows that he can do either A or B, and does B under the influence of pleasure, pain etc.15 So this is not a case in which the person is pursuing pleasure, but simply has no view about whether in doing so he is also pursuing the g ...
Articles Plato and Aristophanes: Poets of Hope
... University Press, 1993), p. 5. Yet, Old Comedy was known for its political and social commentary; G. E. M. de Ste. Croix argues in his Origins of the Peloponnesian War (London: Duckworth, 1972), p. xxix, that we can know Aristophanes’s intentions. Malcolm Heath gives an overview of the debate in his ...
... University Press, 1993), p. 5. Yet, Old Comedy was known for its political and social commentary; G. E. M. de Ste. Croix argues in his Origins of the Peloponnesian War (London: Duckworth, 1972), p. xxix, that we can know Aristophanes’s intentions. Malcolm Heath gives an overview of the debate in his ...
Greater Reality Achieved Through Consciousness
... thinking nevertheless continues to focus, just as Plato’s and Plotinus’s did, on the achievement of unity or self-integration. Hegel’s main term for this unity is “freedom,” which he describes as the ability to be “with oneself in the other.” To be “with oneself” is to have a “self”—to have that kin ...
... thinking nevertheless continues to focus, just as Plato’s and Plotinus’s did, on the achievement of unity or self-integration. Hegel’s main term for this unity is “freedom,” which he describes as the ability to be “with oneself in the other.” To be “with oneself” is to have a “self”—to have that kin ...
Why Didnâ•Žt Plato Just Write Arguments? The Role of Image
... And so now I am not ashamed to ask questions, since you encourage me to do so, and I shall not have to blame myself hereafter for not saying now what I think (85c-d). Simmias appropriately sets philosophy in the context of fundamental human limitation. Human life is carried out in rough waters where ...
... And so now I am not ashamed to ask questions, since you encourage me to do so, and I shall not have to blame myself hereafter for not saying now what I think (85c-d). Simmias appropriately sets philosophy in the context of fundamental human limitation. Human life is carried out in rough waters where ...
Analyzing Plato`s Arguments
... supply the one rather than the other. But reasonable in what sense, and to whom? One possibility is that it is reasonable for the interpreter to believe that the author of the text believed the proposition, or would have believed it had he entertained it. Such a proposition is reasonable for the int ...
... supply the one rather than the other. But reasonable in what sense, and to whom? One possibility is that it is reasonable for the interpreter to believe that the author of the text believed the proposition, or would have believed it had he entertained it. Such a proposition is reasonable for the int ...
PLATO`S THEORY OF LOVE IN THE LYSIS: A DEFENCE*
... The consensus among more recent commentators, however, has once again reinstated the Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost a ...
... The consensus among more recent commentators, however, has once again reinstated the Lysis as an important Platonic work. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of recent Platonic studies has emerged out of the attempt to study Plato not only as a philosopher but as a literary artist. Foremost a ...
The Pythagorean Symbolism in Plato`s Philebus
... "puts an end to the differences between opposites and makes them commensurable and harmonious by introduction of Number" (25d-e). The mixture of elements from the Limited and Unlimited, in appropriate combination, produces a harmonious mathematical concord and "creates a limit and establishes the wh ...
... "puts an end to the differences between opposites and makes them commensurable and harmonious by introduction of Number" (25d-e). The mixture of elements from the Limited and Unlimited, in appropriate combination, produces a harmonious mathematical concord and "creates a limit and establishes the wh ...
PDF - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
... Socrates’ criticism along these lines. Such an account would take the inspiration theory as its main clue and give an explanation of its critical potential in terms of a lack of personal autonomy or freedom of the will. However, before turning to the epistemological consequences of the ‘inspiration ...
... Socrates’ criticism along these lines. Such an account would take the inspiration theory as its main clue and give an explanation of its critical potential in terms of a lack of personal autonomy or freedom of the will. However, before turning to the epistemological consequences of the ‘inspiration ...