Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 28 July 2020
- ISBN 9780367424473
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 82
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Short description:
This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues.
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This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues.
Those exceptional elements of experience – love, city, philosopher – do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical ambition to intensify the concepts and experiences one normally thinks with. His investigations point beyond the fates of these particular exceptions to broader conclusions about Plato’s world.
Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher will be of interest to any readers of Plato, and of ancient philosophy more broadly.
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Epigraph and Note; Introduction; Part I: Why love must be good: kinds of erôs in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus; 1. Congenital love: Aristophanic erôs in the Symposium; 2. Telling good love from bad: Erôs in the Phaedrus; Part II: How a city is made better: the polis in Plato’s Republic; 3. Speaking of tyrants: Gyges and the Republic’s city; 4. The news of the new city; 5. "And then I saw": the myth of Er and the future city; Part III: Where to find the best philosophers: the philosophos in Plato’s Theaetetus , Sophist , and Statesman; 6. "You wise people": the Ion on what sets a philosopher apart; 7. Philosophers at last: Theaetetus, Socrates, and the head philosopher; 8. The Sophist: the sophist with and without philosophy; 9. The Statesman: the little difference that makes philosophy
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