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Platonic Modes of Explanation
<p>In Platonic Modes of Explanation, I examine Plato's treatment of Form, matter, and telos in his theory of explanation. To focus my investigation of Plato's theory, I adopt an unorthodox approach: that of using Aristotle's critical discussions as a touchstone for developing an interpretation of …
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Porphyry, And the Platonic-Aristotelian Tradition
An attempt will be made to determine Porphyry's intellectual and philosophical versatility and to see how it unfolded in dealing with the inherited Greek tradition. We begin with a discussion of Porphyry's understanding of some Homeric and pre-Socratic themes. Then , in the second chapter, Plato's …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
… display a strong orientation toward Middle-Platonic philosophy. On the topic of the soul and its passions, however, Philo also exhibits significant Stoic influence. The introduction notes Philo’s apparent incompatible use of both the complex Platonic and the monistic <br/>Stoic psychological …
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A Consideration of Kafka's Platonic Influences in The Trial
<p>An analysis of Kafka's <em>The Trial </em>using the lens of Plato's <em>Republic</em> to re-analyze the character arc of Joseph K. What exactly does Kafka mean when he has K. die "like a dog"? Is it possible to see the ending as hopeful or optimistic rather than bleak?</p>
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A Platonic Critique of John Rawls' Theory of Justice
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
To all lovers of good literature, the decline in poetic genius is a matter of keen regret. Yet, the need for high standards remains emphatic. In the forgotten writings of that great American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps may he found the most efficacious panacea for the prevalent …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
<p>If one were to look for a Platonic definition of a sophist, it would seem that there could be no better place than Plato’s <em>Sophist</em>, in which the Stranger and Theaetetus lay out a series of definitions in an attempt to articulate what makes a sophist. The Stranger’s definition of a …
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Human Love and Divine Love: The Platonic Matrix in C.S. Lewis
<p>A comparison of the writings of Plato and C.S. Lewis reveals a common idea that human love is not sufficient for man. An examination of Plato’s Symposium and Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and The Four Loves, in particular, shows that both writers illustrate that man must ascend the ladder of love …
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An Investigation of the Components of Platonic and Romantic Heterosexual Relationships
… over 1400 undergraduates at one university had "platonic" heterosexual relationships (Guinsburg, 1970a, b, c).</p> <p>The present study was concerned with the specification and operationalization of variables connected with the "platonic" and "romantic" heterosexual relationship for each sex. …
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The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals
Socrates engages his audience in Phaedrus with speeches that include revised or newly composed myths that express his theory of philosophical eros. The aim of the speeches is to generate a love for truth that spills over into dialogue. Speeches are a starting point for dialogue, just like physical …
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Geometric, Algebraic, and Topological Connections in the Historical Sphere of the Platonic Solids
The Platonic solids have made prominent appearances in the history of pure mathematics: in Euclid's <italic>Elements</italic>, which contains early geometric constructions of the solids and demonstrates the special manner in which each is comprehended by a sphere; in William Hamilton's geometric …
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The cut that cures therapeutic methods in the Platonic dialogues and the Zhuangzi Neipian
… the startling conclusion that, in both the Platonic and Daoist models, this art confronts a limit beyond which it begins to display a set of symptoms reflective of disease. It is at this point, in other words, that the philosopher must account for the risks that are entailed in living a …
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Closeness in the same-sex friendships of men in long-distance and geographically close platonic relationships.
The present study sought to find how men negotiate closeness in their same-sex long-distance friendships. Findings from Fehr (2004) were used to guide the hypotheses. Men were believed to prefer the use of shared activity to build closeness even though they regard self-disclosure as the primary …
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Platonic Interpretation is Set in Wax, Not Stone: Evidence for a Developmentalist Reading of <i>Theaetetus</i> 151-187
… This thesis provides a brief history of Platonic interpretation, an exposition of the first definition of knowledge, and evidence for Reading B. The evidence appeals to the two Readings’ mutually exclusive interpretations. The thesis suggests essential features of moderate versions of HF …
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The Roots of Fascist Aesthetics in Antiquity
… an attempt to ascertain whether, and if so how, Platonic philosophy, particularly the Republic and Laws , influenced the development of aestheticized politics in National Socialist Germany. This is contextualized within the theoretical framework of aesthetic politics, which draws on the work of …
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Kissing the Archimedeans
… kissing problem will be related to the Platonic and Archimedean solids. On each polyhedra presented their vertices will have spheres expanding such that the center of each of these outer spheres are the vertices of the polyhedron, and these outer spheres will continue to expand until …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… cosmology and metaphysics and their ostensibly Platonic elements (consisting chiefly in the Timaeus); second, investigation of what motivated his interpretation and appropriation of Platonic cosmology (I emphasize the influence of A.E. Taylor’s Commentary on the Timaeus); third, analysis of the …
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Sacral Citizenship: Philosophies of the City from Plato to Augustine
… ages and classes. Cicero is caught between this Platonic vision and a Stoic, proto-liberal one, and the same goes for Rome itself. Its aspects of empire and monarchy can be seen as according with Platonic mixed constitution and universalising ambition. Augustine, by virtue of his Christian …
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