Epistles Seventh Letter

Author : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistles - Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is George Burges nineteenth-century translation of Plato's seventh letter. It is an autobiographical account of a period in the Greek philosopher's life when he visited Syracuse (Sicily) to see his friend Dion. He shared his philosophical beliefs with his friend but this indirectly led to the death of Dion on the order of Dionysius, ruler of Syracuse. In the latter part of the letter Plato shares some of his philosophical beliefs, such as it is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Author : Plató
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521155257
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by Plató and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude concerning the possibility of writing true philosophical works and the theory of forms. Assuming that the letter is authentic, it was written after Dion was assassinated by Calippus in 353 BC and before the latter was in turn overthrown a year later.Of all the letters attributed to Plato, the Seventh Letter is widely considered the only one that might be authentic. R. Ledger defends its authenticity on the basis of computer analysis. Anthony Kenny is likewise inclined to accept it as genuine. The main objections to its authenticity involve its statement that there are forms or ideas of artificial things, whereas Aristotle attributes to Plato the idea that there are forms or ideas only of natural things, as well as the fact that the letter's purported historical setting seems unlikely: the letter implies that Dion's followers wrote to Plato asking him for practical political advice while at the same time insinuating that he had not been loyal to Dion, that Calippus permitted the letter to get to Plato, and that Plato replied by recounting in detail recent history to people who were immediately involved in those events and included in his advice a long digression on the theory of forms. These problems lead R. G. Bury to conclude that the letter was an open letter intended to defend Plato in the eyes of his fellow Athenians rather than to be sent to Dion's followers in Sicily; there probably never was any letter from them to Plato, he says.Nevertheless, the Seventh Letter has recently been argued to be spurious by prominent scholars such as Malcolm Schofield, Myles Burnyeat, George Boas, Terence Irwin, and Julia Annas. According to Annas, the Seventh Letter is "such an unconvincing production that its acceptance by many scholars is best seen as indicating the strength of their desire to find, behind the detachment of the dialogues, something, no matter what, to which Plato is straightforwardly committed."

Author : Plato
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986474781
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seventh Letter Plato - The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude concerning the possibility of writing true philosophical works and the theory of forms. Assuming that the letter is authentic, it was written after Dion was assassinated by Calippus in 353 BC and before the latter was in turn overthrown a year later.Of all the letters attributed to Plato, the Seventh Letter is widely considered the only one that might be authentic. R. Ledger defends its authenticity on the basis of computer analysis. Anthony Kenny is likewise inclined to accept it as genuine. The main objections to its authenticity involve its statement that there are forms or ideas of artificial things, whereas Aristotle attributes to Plato the idea that there are forms or ideas only of natural things, as well as the fact that the letter's purported historical setting seems unlikely: the letter implies that Dion's followers wrote to Plato asking him for practical political advice while at the same time insinuating that he had not been loyal to Dion, that Calippus permitted the letter to get to Plato, and that Plato replied by recounting in detail recent history to people who were immediately involved in those events and included in his advice a long digression on the theory of forms. These problems lead R. G. Bury to conclude that the letter was an open letter intended to defend Plato in the eyes of his fellow Athenians rather than to be sent to Dion's followers in Sicily; there probably never was any letter from them to Plato, he says.Nevertheless, the Seventh Letter has recently been argued to be spurious by prominent scholars such as Malcolm Schofield, Myles Burnyeat, George Boas, Terence Irwin, and Julia Annas. According to Annas, the Seventh Letter is "such an unconvincing production that its acceptance by many scholars is best seen as indicating the strength of their desire to find, behind the detachment of the dialogues, something, no matter what, to which Plato is straightforwardly committed."

Author : Myles Burnyeat
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198733658
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter written by Myles Burnyeat and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the authenticity of the Platonic Seventh Letter, showing how its philosophical content conflicts with what we find in the Platonic dialogues.

Author : L. Edelstein
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004320334
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Seventh Letter written by L. Edelstein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ludwig Edelstein
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Plato's Seventh Letter written by Ludwig Edelstein and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pope Clement I
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth written by Pope Clement I and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Dess Amanu
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664256172
Total Pages : 235 pages
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Download or read book The Nobility of Harvesting the Fruits of Hard Work written by Dr. Dess Amanu and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is incredible humility in harvesting the sweat of one’s own extreme hardwork and applying the proceeds to lovingly benefit others. Despite the devastating abject-poverty from which he suffered from his very birth to the end of his nineteenth birthday, Dr. Dess. received several award-winning educational credentials including recording historical first-time landmark achievements detailed in the book. His efforts bore extraordinarily fruitful blessings of outstanding professional jobs ending with a Doctorate in Ministry preceded by a Ph.D. in Business Administration. Such important issues as discipline, exhortation, inspiration, advice to commit to the doctrine of covenantal marriage bond, and motivation are critically reviewed and very encouraging reconciliatory recommendations have been offered in this book.

Author : Phebe Lowell Bowditch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520226038
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage written by Phebe Lowell Bowditch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using modern literary and anthropological theory, Bowditch investigates the relationship between Roman poets and patrons, based on a detailed study of selected Odes and Epistles which throw light on the dynamic relationship between Horace and his own patron Maecenas.