Law and Political Expertise in Plato's Statesman Law and Political Expertise in Plato’s Statesman Catherine McKeen Bennington College Abstract: Remarks made by the Eleatic Visitor at Statesman 293a-300e are often read as implying that laws are hopelessly defective in comparison w…

Gaël Cabos Université Côte d’Azur On Derrida’s reading strategy. The case of Plato’s Phaedrus The “metaphysics of presence” is a category used by Jacques Derrida (mostly in his early works) to classify a certain number of philosophies and philosophical practices that have always,…

…thing and its name, or is language completely arbitrary and conventional? Since Plato's (427-347 BCE) whole philosophy was ultimately based on his belief in fixed ethical norms, he had to take up the challenge posited by the relativist point of view held by some of the sophists. …

…nfluence on the author: classical philosophy, as represented, in particular, by Plato and the Stoics of ancient Rome. Like Socrates in Plato’s Apology, many of Bradbury’s heroes are fearless critics of society who end up being persecuted for their determination to speak truth to …

…eek authors of the archaic and classical period, with a special focus on Homer, Plato and Demosthenes.3 By including Cicero in this purely Greek context, Longinus seems to pay tribute to the most famous Roman orator, who must have been well known to his addressee and wider audien…

Plato’s Republic An Introduction SEAN MCALEER https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2020 Sean McAleer This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the text; to adap…

… A Transformation in What Writing Represents: David Boulton: Before we go on to Plato, one of the interesting things that I’m hearing, that I would like to draw out, is that there may have been a multi-ordinal written-oral language connection in the Hebrew writing system that did…

… A Transformation in What Writing Represents: David Boulton: Before we go on to Plato, one of the interesting things that I’m hearing, that I would like to draw out, is that there may have been a multi-ordinal written-oral language connection in the Hebrew writing system that did…

… A Transformation in What Writing Represents: David Boulton: Before we go on to Plato, one of the interesting things that I’m hearing, that I would like to draw out, is that there may have been a multi-ordinal written-oral language connection in the Hebrew writing system that did…

…οσοφία του Πλάτωνα This PhD dissertation entitled “The Concept of Publicness in Plato’s Philosophy,” consists of Pre... more This PhD dissertation entitled “The Concept of Publicness in Plato’s Philosophy,” consists of Preface, Introduction, two Parts, Conclusions, Bibliography, …

…practical trajectory of Gadamer’s hermeneutics that arises from his interest in Plato and Aristotle. From Plato, Gadamer discerns the centrality of dialogue as the means by which we come to understanding. Dialogue is rooted in and committed to furthering our common bond with one …

…ry. Though it is generally accepted that the Theology was a major source for Neoplatonic ideas in the Islamic world, much research remains to be done in discovering when and by whom it was read, and how exactly it was used by later readers. This paper will deal with the earliest,…

… in the Philosophia and subsequently in near-identical form in the Glosae super Platonem –, considerable attention has been paid to this new terminology. However, the pre- vailing selective approaches have led to a number of misunderstan- dings, which need to be dispelled from th…

…alify this claim by saying that ‘the doctrine of the soul’s immortality is more Platonic property than Pythagorean’ (Sedley and Long 2010: xxiii). Similarly, Palmer notes (2014: 212) that ‘in the end there is little evidence indicating that the early Pythagoreans consider what th…

…d to grapple, often critically, with its implications. We show that Thucydides, Plato, and other Greek political thinkers devoted a considerable part of their work to analyzing the polis’ tendency toward not only political, but also eco- nomic, social, and legal inclusion. Withou…