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New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher. The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to the Laws and includes discussions of topics in ethics, political theory, psychology, epistemology, ontology, physics and metaphysics, and ancient literary criticism. The contributions by an international team of scholars represent a spectrum of diverse traditions and approaches, and offer new solutions to a selection of specific problems. Themes include the Happiness and Nature of the Philosopher-Kings, Law and Justice, the...

Der griechische Philosoph Platon (um 424-347 v. Chr.) ist der Begründer der abendländischen Philosophie. Er fasste in seinen Schriften Erkenntnis, Wissen und Weisheit seiner Zeit zusammen, erfand und prüfte neue Forschungsmethoden, bestand darauf, dass Naturwissenschaften mathematisch fundiert sein müssen, und forderte, dass alle Wissenszweige miteinander in angemessenem Zusammenhang studiert und erforscht werden. Wissen, Wissenschaft und Erkenntnis bildeten für ihn auch die Grundlagen menschlichen Zusammenlebens und gesellschaftlicher und staatlicher Organisation. In seiner politischen...

Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory, as well as on Presocratic philosophy. Words & Ideas offers a study of Plato's philosophical language against this cultural background, retracing to their origins the history and development of the key terms of the Theory of Forms as presented in the Phaedo. 'Form' or 'idea', 'ousia' or 'being', 'participation', 'presence' and 'community' are...