The Platonic Epistles

Author : J. Harward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107418127
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Download or read book The Platonic Epistles written by J. Harward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932, this book contains an English translation of the thirteen Epistles of Plato. Harward also provides a detailed introduction on the history of Sicily in the time of Plato, and examines the letters' claims to authenticity. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Sicilian history, Platonic philosophy or ancient letter writing.

Author : Plato
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book the platonic epistles written by Plato and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reginald Hackforth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles written by Reginald Hackforth and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Download or read book The Platonic Epistles written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721795413
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Download or read book The Seventh Letter written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 108 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." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772910
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Plato's "Letters" written by Plato and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy. Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the Letters is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original essays, Helfer describes how the Letters was written as a single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus. Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor. Plato's "Letters" not only defends what Helfer calls the "literary unity thesis" by reviewing the scholarly history pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result, Plato's "Letters" recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the Letters, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Download or read book Thirteen Epistles of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book Plato's Epistles written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253044332
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book Being and Logos written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Being and Logos is] a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace." —International Philosophical Quarterly John Sallis's luminous reading of six major Platonic dialogues—Apology, Meno, Phaedrus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist—weaves discussion of dramatic and mythical aspects together with basic philosophical issues. Being and Logos fundamentally reorients our reading and understanding of the platonic dialogues. This new edition of this classic of philosophical interpretation augments the Collected Writings of John Sallis, published by Indiana University Press.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986474781
Total Pages : 38 pages
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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."