The Plato Papers

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307429202
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plato Papers written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the "modern" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence. At the turn of the 38th century, London's greatest orator, Plato, is known for his lectures on the long, tumultuous history of his now tranquil city. Plato focuses on the obscure and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, the Age of Mouldwarp. His subjects include Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece "Jokes and Their Relation to the Subconscious," and Charles D.'s greatest novel, "The Origin of Species." He explores the rituals of Mouldwarp, and the later cult of webs and nets that enslaved the population. By the end of his lecture series, however, Plato has been drawn closer to the subject of his fascination than he could ever have anticipated. At once funny and erudite, The Plato Papers is a smart and entertaining look at how the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385497688
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plato Papers written by Peter Ackroyd and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Plato Papers" treads a thin line between fantasy and biography as London's greatest orator lectures at the turn of the 38th century. Perfectly timed for the year 2000 as we imagine millennia beyond our own, "this masterpiece of contemporary writing will entertain readers for years to come" (Jay Parini, author of "The Last Station").

Author : J. L. Ackrill
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0199244960
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Plato and Aristotle written by J. L. Ackrill and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Ackrill's work on Plato and Aristotle has had a considerable influence upon ancient philosophical studies in the late twentieth century. In his writings the rigour and clarity of contemporary analytical philosophy are brought to bear upon ancient thought; in many cases he has providedthe first analytic treatment of a key issue. Gathered now in this volume are the best of Ackrill's essays on the two greatest philosophers of antiquity. Here he examines a wide range of texts and topics -- from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics -- which continue to be the focus ofdebate today.

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691001784
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtues of Authenticity written by Alexander Nehamas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent philosopher and classical scholar Alexander Nehamas presents here a collection of his most important essays on Plato and Socrates. The papers are unified in theme by the idea that Plato's central philosophical concern in metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics was to distinguish the authentic from the fake, the original from its imitations. In approach, the collection displays Nehamas's characteristic combination of analytical rigor and sensitivity to the literary form and dramatic effect of Plato's work. Together, the papers represent Nehamas's distinct and original contributions to scholarship on Plato and Socrates and serve as a comprehensive introduction to the thought of these two philosophers. In the book's opening section, Nehamas discusses Plato's representation of Socrates as a model of authentic human goodness, showing that Plato's Socrates is a more skeptical, troubling, and individualistic thinker than is usually supposed. The papers in the second section form a sustained defense of a new and important understanding of Plato's theory of the forms and the evolution of that theory in Plato's later writings. The third section examines Plato's contention that popular entertainment--by which he meant Greek epic and tragic poetry--misleads its audience into a debased life, an argument Nehamas relates to modern anxieties about television and other forms of popular culture. The collection also includes a discussion of Plato's use of the dialogue form in his representation of Socrates and carefully examines the combination of literary and philosophical elements in his work. Nehamas argues in the book that Plato's specific judgments of what is authentic are often flawed, but that his idea of authenticity as the mark of truth, beauty, and goodness is stronger than many modern scholars have assumed. In drawing together Nehamas's many influential ideas about Plato and Socrates, Virtues of Authenticity is a major contribution to the study of ancient Greek philosophy.

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781914535253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason and Necessity written by M. R. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.

Author : Rachana Kamtekar
Publisher : Critical Essays on the Classics Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito written by Rachana Kamtekar and published by Critical Essays on the Classics Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Euthyrphro, Apology, and Crito portray Socrates' words and deeds during his trial for disbelieving in the Gods of Athens and corrupting the Athenian youth, and constitute a defense of the man Socrates and of his way of life, the philosophic life. The twelve essays in the volume, written by leading classical philosophers, investigate various aspects of these works of Plato, including the significance of Plato's characters, Socrates's revolutionary religious ideas, and the relationship between historical events and Plato's texts. Readers will find their appreciation of Plato's works greatly enriched by these essays.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plato Papers written by Peter Ackroyd and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the way time deforms reality and the futility of bucking the process. In the 37th century, as a result of an error somewhere over the centuries, academics teach The Origin of Species was not a book on evolution by Charles Darwin, but a novel by Charles Dickens. When the hero questions the accuracy of this bit of history, he lands in trouble.

Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199245581
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato on Knowledge and Forms written by Gail Fine and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato on Knowledge and Forms brings together a set of connected essays by Gail Fine, in her main area of research since the late 1970s: Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. She discusses central issues in Plato's metaphysics and epistemology, issues concerning the nature and extent of knowledge, and its relation to perception, sensibles, and forms; and issues concerning the nature of forms, such as whether they are universals or particulars, separate or immanent, and whether they are causes. A specially written introduction draws together the themes of the volume, which will reward the attention of anyone interested in Plato or in ancient metaphysics and epistemology.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Republic: Essays written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845402367
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Plato to Wittgenstein written by G.E.M. Anscombe and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the collection provides further testimony to Anscombe's insight and intellectual imagination.