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Fear and Death in Plato
Plato argues that a perfectly virtuous individual will not fear her own death, nor will she fear or grieve the death of a loved one. In Plato's ideal society, citizens are taught not to fear death and are prohibited from public manifestations of grief. It is by no means self-evident, however, that …
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On Plato's Hipparchus
The Hipparchus, Plato’s short dialogue on the love of gain, generally receives little attention from contemporary scholars. This essay, however, argues that Socrates’ brazenly amoral defense of seeking gain provides deep insights into some of the fundamental themes of Platonic political philosophy, …
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Plato on soul and body
This thesis examines the development of Plato's thought on the subject of the soul-body relation. I will not attempt to cover everything that Plato says about the soul - for example I will discuss 'proofs' of immorality only in so far as they have a bearing on the interpretation of soul and body. …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
<p>This dissertation examines the presence of Plato in the philosophical expressions of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). It was Whitehead who issued the well-known remark that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists in a series of …
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Courage and the soul in Plato
… on the literature and philosophy of this period. Plato prioritises these quiet moral virtues, but also tries to hang on to some of what had come before, and thus faces difficulties with his moral theory. I will show that courage presents Plato with an acute difficulty when attempting to develop a …
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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… of the body in the fashioning of the self in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. Even though it is usually argued that for Plato the real self is simply the soul and that the body is merely a hindrance toward realization of the ideal self, my analysis of these dialogues shows that the body …
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God en het goddelijke in de dialogen van Plato
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_06799881x.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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From Conflict to Unity: Plato on Well-Ordered Wholes
… pertaining to the theme of ‘parts and wholes’ in Plato. One classic example is Verity Harte’s 2002 monograph Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure (OUP), which revisits the mereological question of what constitutes a ‘whole’ in the philosophy of Plato. The main achievement of …
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The nature and purpose of relative terms in Plato
… concerning the nature of this type of term in Plato fall under three themes. First, logic: what is the syntax and semantics of relative terms? Second, metaphysics: what structures in the world constitute relative properties? Third, taxonomy: do relative terms form a distinguishable class? …
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Reconstructing the Republic : Dewey's back to Plato movement.
… (LW.5.154). Second, he states that only Plato surpasses the "richness" and "variety of insight" found in Hegel. He continues, saying "Nothing could be more helpful to present philosophizing than a "Back to Plato" movement" (LW.5.154). This proclamation is troublesome because of the …
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Truth, Knowledge, and the Value of False Belief in Plato
… dissertation, I challenge common readings of Plato according to which epistemic vice is either always bad, or is merely beneficial for non-philosophers. On my reading, false beliefs and defective forms of reasoning can benefit everyone in two ways. First, there are commitments--to care for the …
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Provocation In The Political Theories Of Plato, Rousseau And Nietzsche
… and explain the theoretical provocations in Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche's works. I assess their works as well as a wide-ranging body of scholarship both on the concept and the theorists, to show that--despite Plato, Rousseau and Nietzsche's many peculiarities both in …
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The idea of creation in Plato, Augustine, and Emil Brunner
… is to examine the views of creation that Plato, Augustine, and Brunner advance to deal with problems involved in God's relation to the world. Divine craftsmanship seems to be the model in Plato's view of creation. His view of Pattern, Demiurgos, and Receptacle are advanced in order to deal …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… of Chaeronea, an eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato and …
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Political philosophy and the divine ground : Eric Voegelin on Plato.
… interpreted classic texts, especially those of Plato. Understanding how and why contemporary thinkers have turned to Plato promises to illuminate critical features of the contemporary thinker's work, Plato's work, and the modern situation in general. This study contributes to these efforts by …
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