Plato's Phaedo: Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

ISBN-13: 9781108479943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

David (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Ebrey

Opis

A comprehensive book on Plato's Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.

Recenzje

'Judicious, accessible, comprehensive, and richly informative, David Ebrey's new study of the Phaedo will be welcomed by students and scholars alike.' David Sedley, University of Cambridge

Spis treści

1. The Characters; 2. The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy and Socrates as a Poet: 57a–61c; 3. Defense of the Desire to be Dead: 61c–69e; 4. Cebes' Challenge and the Cyclical Argument: 69e–72d; 5. The Recollecting Argument: 72e–77d; 6. The Kinship Argument: 77d–80d; 7. The Return to the Defense: 80d–84b; 8. Misology and the Soul as a Harmonia: 84c–86e, 88c–95a; 9. Socrates' Autobiography: 95e–102a; 10. Cebes' Objection and the Final Argument: 86e–88b, 102b–107b; 11. The Cosmos and the Afterlife: 107c–115a; 12. The Death Scene: 115a–118a.