Search results for "plato"
epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Sonja Madeleine Tanner

Logos and the Satirical Comedy in the Cratylus reveals not only humanity’s inextricable bond to logos, as Sallis contends, but, as I argue here, it also exposes hubristic pretensions to ...
( Category: Greek & Roman July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-22 | Author:Gibson, John Winslow [Gibson, John Winslow]

PLATO HIMSELF I want to consider Plato as a person, who he was and what made him “tick”. In his Seventh Letter at 328c, he speaks of why he went ...
( Category: Religious Philosophy June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Robert Cavalier

Socrates draws a picture of the legions of the gods, led by Zeus, moving upward toward the outer vault of the heavens. Here they gaze beyond the cosmos and upon ...
( Category: Philosophers June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Plato

1. See Apology 33e1 note. 2. Legend had it that Athens was once obliged to send King Minos of Crete an annual tribute of seven young men and seven maidens ...
( Category: Greek & Roman June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-25 | Author:Gerson, Lloyd P.;

Skepticism, Rationalism, and Platonism Sextus reports that Arcesilaus was alive to the criticism that a Skeptic who withheld assent to all propositional claims could not conduct ordinary life without contradicting ...
( Category: Greece May 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-21 | Author:Plato

23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Plato & Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
( Category: Philosophers April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-10-27 | Author:Plato

He struck his chest, and his heart he scolded thus: 94e “Bear up, my heart! Much worse you have endured.”125 Do you think Homer composed these lines in the belief ...
( Category: Philosophers April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Plato

C[3] 488b2–491d3 Socrates does not immediately defend himself from Callicles’ attack, but goes to work on his claim by attempting to get him to clarify what he meant by ‘stronger’ ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Plato

Is There a Platonic Theory of Perception in Theaetetus? An affirmative answer is often given to this question: see especially Cornford [2], Modrak [109], Nakhnikian [111] and Reed [114]. Despite ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-27 | Author:Plato

23. The process of transformation further explained. The main bulk of each body tends to collect in a particular region. From all we have so far said about the four ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:Plato

And are they right in saying this? They may be. Perhaps, I said, about half, or possibly, altogether, right, if their meaning were rightly apprehended by us. For the more ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mason, Andrew S.

In the Phaedrus (245c), Socrates identifies the soul with “what moves itself”, and claims that what moves itself, “because it never lets go of itself, never ceases to move”. It ...
( Category: other April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Evans, John David Gemmill.

DIALECTIC AND DIALOGUE Here are three examples of issues where different texts point us in deeply different directions: the conceptual nature of reality, the ideal status of the best form ...
( Category: other April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tuominen, Miira.

Commentators on the metaphysical status of perceptible objects We mentioned above that, within the Aristotelian framework, perceptible objects are external things. Alexander, Themistius and Philoponus confirm that they endorse this ...
( Category: History & Theory April 6,2020 )