Plato

Fair Play: Resolving the Crito-Apology Problem

by Jonathan Hecht

Draft version.
History of Political Thought 32 (4), 2011
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I present arguments against previous readings of the Crito then give an interpretation of the dialogue characterized... more I present arguments against previous readings of the Crito then give an interpretation of the dialogue characterized in terms of fair play. This resolves seeming inconsistencies with the Apology.

‘Socrates: sources and interpretations’

by Jenny Bryan

forthcoming in F. Sheffield and J. Warren (eds) Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy.

'Eikos' in Plato's 'Phaedrus'

by Jenny Bryan

for a forthcoming volume on Eikos edited by Victoria Wohl.

Philosophical Walls: Plato and the Debate on Philopolitics in Athens Fifth and Fourth Centuries

by GABRIELE CORNELLI

CORNELLI, G. Una metafisica pitagorica nel Filebo? In Methexis XXIII (2010)

by GABRIELE CORNELLI

‘Consequences of Freedom: The Case of Nicias and Socrates’

by Bogdan Burliga

[in:] Freedom and Its Limits in the Ancient World [Electrum 9], eds. D. Brodka, J. Janik and S. Sprawski, Cracow 2003, pp. 21-36

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

Political Psychology In Plato's Alcibiades I

by Jose Daniel Parra

Call for Papers "Methods in Practice" Workshop, Manchester Workshop in Political Theory, 5-7 September 2012

by Jens Olesen

Madame Bovary, tra letteratura e filosofia. Jules de Gaultier ed il Bovarismo

by Alice Gonzi

Poetic Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead

by Matthew David Segall

sketching the speculative platonism of Schelling and Whitehead as it relates to the poetic imagination.

Umkehr der Zeit. Tanz, Lebensalter und die zweitbeste Verfassung in Platons Nomoi

by Manuel Schölles

in: D. Koch / I. Männlein-Robert / N. Weidtmann (ed.), Platon und die Mousiké, Antike-Studien Band 2, Tübingen 2012, 136–154.

Dancing Naked with Socrates

by Christopher Long

This article offers an interpretation of Plato's Menexenus in which the figure of Socrates emerges as critical of both... more This article offers an interpretation of Plato's Menexenus in which the figure of Socrates emerges as critical of both the Periclean and Aspasian vision of politics. By speaking in the voice of Aspasia in the Menexenus, Socrates is able to draw out the limitations of the Periclean politics of freedom without straightforwardly identifying himself with the Aspasian politics of care. By distancing himself from both positions, Socrates elucidates the limitations of each: The Periclean vision of politics is grounded in a conception of self-sufficiency that leads to imperialism, the Aspasian in the dangerous myth of autochthony. Socrates' playful dialogue with Menexenus, and Menexenus' incapacity to appreciate the ambiguity and nuance of the Socratic position, lend new insight into the meaning and nature of philosophical citizenship. Socrates, as the philosopher citizen, distances himself from two main ideological visions of politics in such a way that a new conception of politics emerges, one grounded as much in justice as in freedom.

Socrates and the Politics of Music

by Christopher Long

At least since the appearance of Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic has been read as arguing for a politics of... more At least since the appearance of Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic has been read as arguing for a politics of unity in which difference is understood as a threat to the polis. By focusing on the musical imagery of the Republic, and specifically on its compositional organization around three "preludes," this essay seeks an understanding of Socratic politics that moves beyond the hypothesis of unity. In the first "prelude," Thrasymachus and his insistence that justice is the self-interest of the stronger threatens to subject the harmony of the community to the tyrannical whims of the individual. In the second, the perfected justice of Adeimantus's city threatens to destroy the erotic rhythm of difference that is the very condition for the possibility of the polis. It is only in the song of dialectic, which itself is called a "prelude," that the tension between the rhythm of plurality and the rational homophony of unity is dynamically tuned in such a way that both the anarchic politics of self-interest and the totalitarian politics of rationalized oppression are equally muted. This conception of politics is embodied in the relationship that emerges between Glaucon and Socrates. Ultimately, the true political community is established here, between rational, erotic individuals seeking justice in concrete, living dialogue.

A "Conception" of Truth in Plato's Sophist

by Blake Hestir

Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.1 (2003), 1-24.

The Form of Soul in the Phaedo

by Brian Prince

PRINCE, Brian D., "The Form of Soul in the Phaedo", Plato 11 (2011), [En ligne], mis en ligne : March 2012, URL : http://gramata.univ-paris1.fr/Plato/article101.html, consulte le 6 May 2012

Although the Phaedo never mentions a Form of Soul explicitly, the dialogue implies this Form’s existence. First, a... more Although the Phaedo never mentions a Form of Soul explicitly, the dialogue implies this Form’s existence. First, a number of passages in which Socrates describes his views about Forms imply that there are very many Forms; thus, Socrates’ general description of his theory gives no ground for denying that there is a Form of Soul. Second, the final argument for immortality positively requires a Form of Soul.

The Form of Soul in the Phaedo

by Brian Prince

PRINCE, Brian D., "The Form of Soul in the Phaedo", Plato 11 (2011), [En ligne], mis en ligne : March 2012, URL : http://gramata.univ-paris1.fr/Plato/article101.html, consulte le 6 May 2012

Although the Phaedo never mentions a Form of Soul explicitly, the dialogue implies this Form’s existence. First, a... more Although the Phaedo never mentions a Form of Soul explicitly, the dialogue implies this Form’s existence. First, a number of passages in which Socrates describes his views about Forms imply that there are very many Forms; thus, Socrates’ general description of his theory gives no ground for denying that there is a Form of Soul. Second, the final argument for immortality positively requires a Form of Soul.

Celestial Symbols on Roman Standards

by George Beke Latura

Published in The Celator numismatic monthly, June 2011

What led Roman legionnaires to their world-conquering deeds?

That would be the standard carried at the... more What led Roman legionnaires to their world-conquering deeds?

That would be the standard carried at the forefront of the legions that promised a blessed afterlife in the heavens, should soldiers fall in battle that day.

La analogía epistéme-téchne en el Perí Ideôn de Aristóteles

by Álvaro Madrazo

Review of Pelosi, F. (2010) Plato on Music, Soul and Body. Trans. Sophie Henderson. Cambridge, CR 62.2 (2012).

by Theodora Hadjimichael