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Plato and the Body
(August 2018)
Reconsidering Socratic Asceticism
Coleen P. Zoller - Author
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Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.
For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato’s use of ...(Read More) |
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Socratic Ignorance and Platonic Knowledge in the Dialogues of Plato
(May 2018)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe - Author
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Argues that Socrates’s fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.
In this highly original and provocative book, Sara Ahbel-Rappe argues that the Platonic dialogues contain an esoteric Socrates who signifies a profound commitment to self-knowledge and whose appearances in the dialogues are meant to foster the practice of self-inquiry. According to Ahbel-Rappe, the elenchus, or ...(Read More) |
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The Parthenon and Liberal Education
(March 2018)
Geoff Lehman - Author
Michael Weinman - Author
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Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.
The Parthenon and Liberal Education seeks to restore the study of mathematics to its original place of prominence in the liberal arts. To build this case, Geoff Lehman and Michael Weinman turn to Philolaus, a near contemporary of Socrates. The authors demonstrate the influ...(Read More) |
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Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle
(February 2018)
Abraham P. Bos - Author
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Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle’s work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.
In this deep rethinking of Aristotle’s work, Abraham P. Bos argues that scholarship on Aristotle’s philosophy has erred since antiquity in denying the connection between his theology and his doctrine of reproduction and life in the earthly sphere. Beginning with an analysis ...(Read More) |
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Plato's Laughter
(December 2017)
Socrates as Satyr and Comical Hero
Sonja Madeleine Tanner - Author
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Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.
Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato’s dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavi...(Read More) |
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The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem
(June 2017)
Thales, Pythagoras, Engineering, Diagrams, and the Construction of the Cosmos out of Right Triangles
Robert Hahn - Author
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Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.
Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the Pythagorean theorem. Thales, whom Aristotle called the first philosopher and who was an older contemporary of Pythagoras, posited the principle of a unity from which all things come, and back into which they retur...(Read More) |
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Plato's Statesman
(January 2017)
Dialectic, Myth, and Politics
John Sallis - Editor
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Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.
The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato’s dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. T...(Read More) |
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Topography and Deep Structure in Plato
(December 2016)
The Construction of Place in the Dialogues
Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran - Author
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A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols, images, and actions employed in Plato’s dialogues.
In this book, Clinton DeBevoise Corcoran examines the use of place in Plato’s dialogues. Corcoran argues that spatial representations, such as walls, caves, and roads, as well as the creation of eternal patterns and chaotic images in the particular spaces, times, characterizations...(Read More) |
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Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle's Ethics
(November 2016)
Ann Ward - Author
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Examines how Aristotle posits political philosophy and the experience of friendship as a means to bind strictly intellectual virtue with morality.
In this book, Ann Ward explores Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, focusing on the progressive structure of the argument. Aristotle begins by giving an account of moral virtue from the perspective of the moral agent, only to find that the account itself highlights fundamen...(Read More) |
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The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle
(June 2016)
A Somatic Guide
Douglas Robinson - Author
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Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.
Mencius (385–303/302 BCE) and Aristotle (384–322 BCE) were contemporaries, but are often understood to represent opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum. Mencius is associated with the ecological, emergent, flowing, and connected; Artistotle with the rational, static, abstract, and binary. Douglas Robinson argues that in t...(Read More) |
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