From death to life : key themes in Plato's Phaedo
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From death to life : key themes in Plato's Phaedo
(Brill's Plato studies series, v. 14)
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index
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Description
This book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato's Phaedo and provides an overall interpretation of the dialogue. For each of the topics (or Platonic passages) analysed, the book presents a detailed assessment and discussion of the most prominent scholarship. On the basis of this approach, From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo intends to offer new contributions to the current scholarly discussion, particularly with regard to the knowability of the Forms, "recollection", the doctrine of the soul as a harmony, the problem of causes, and the so-called "second voyage". This book is expected to spark debate among scholars both in terms of the critical assessment of the theses it proposes and of the objections it raises against alternative interpretations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Why Publish This Book?
2 Detailed Synopsis of the Book
1 Death
1 Dogmatism, Scepticism, etc.
2 Plato's 'Third Way'
3 Philosophy or Religion?
4 Immortality
5 Between Science and Ignorance
6 Conclusion
2 Suicide
1 Cebes's Amazement
2 The Argument
3 The Morality of Happiness
3 Virtue
1 The Philosopher and Virtue: A Digression?
2 A Contradiction between Phaedo and Republic?
3 Philosophy as Politics
4 Popular and Philosophical Virtue
5 The Philosopher According to Plato
6 The Political Relevance of Asceticism
7 Conclusion
4 The (True) Philosopher
1 Sokratismusstreit
2 The True Philosopher: The Identity between Theory and Practice
3 Antisthenes and the Use of Pleasures: From Xenophon's Symposium to Plato's Gorgias
4 Antisthenes in the Phaedo
5 Philosophy and the Use of ?????
6 The Philosopher's Life and Death
5 Recollection
1 Recollection as Demonstration of Immortality
2 Recollection as Condition of Possibility of Knowledge
3 Problems Solved
4 Recollection as Explanation of Human Middle Condition
5 Meno 85c-d
6 Episteme and Doxa
6 Harmony
1 Soul as Harmony: The Pythagorical Background
2 Socrates' Second Argument
3 Socrate's Third Argument
4 The Crucial Premise of the Third Argument
5 The Philosophical Significance of Socrate's Refutation
7 Causes
1 Methodological Problems
2 The Causes of Generation, Corruption and Being
3 The Physical Causes: Socrates' Dissatisfaction
4 What Is the Problem?
5 Eleatic Background
6 Conclusion
8 Voyage(s)
1 'Deuteros plous'
2 What Is the "First Voyage?"
3 Images
4 The Logos "Hardest to Disprove"
5 Deuteros Plous in Philebus
6 Deuteros Plous in Statesman
7 Conclusion
9 Life
1 The 'Last Argument'
2 What Occupies What?
3 Immortal and Indestructible
4 Conclusion
Works Cited
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