Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Plato’s thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction to Plato by Albinus of Smyrna, Dissertation 11 of Max
One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon “truths.” As Nietzsche observed in hisWill to Power, the curren
In this book, William H. F. Altman argues that it is not order of composition but reading order that makesEuthyphro, Apology of Socrates,Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and shows why Plato’s decis
What is the nature of truth? Blake E. Hestir offers an investigation into Plato's developing metaphysical views, and examines Plato's conception of being, meaning, and truth in the Sophist, as well as passages from several other later dialogues including the Cratylus, Parmenides, and Theaetetus, where Plato begins to focus more directly on semantics rather than only on metaphysical and epistemological puzzles. Hestir's interpretation challenges both classical and contemporary interpretations of Plato's metaphysics and conception of truth, and highlights new parallels between Plato and Aristotle, as well as clarifying issues surrounding Plato's approach to semantics and thought. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, contemporary truth theory, linguistics, and philosophy of language.
The Poverty of Eros in Plato's Symposium offers an innovative new approach towards Eros and the concept oferos in the Symposium. Lorelle D. Lamascus argues that Plato's depiction of Eros as the child
In this bold new study, Andrew J. Mason seeks both to shed light on the key issue of flux in Plato’s work, and to show that there is also in Plato a notion offlow that needs to be distinguished from f
This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of theTheaetetus, Pappas first considers
No topic could be more relevant in these times than tyranny, “the greatest sickness of the soul.” TheCharmidesof Plato gives us an opportunity to look deeply into the soul or cognitive structure of on
In a revision of his 2012 doctoral dissertation at the University of Leuven, Lauwers seeks to resolve the debate over whether the imperial Greek author Maximus of Tyre was a philosopher, a rhetor, or
Since the beginnings of monotheism, religion has seemed to be at war with sexuality and with women. From the crusades of Hebrew prophets against the fertility deities of Canaan, to contemporary Cathol
A philosophy professor highlights proof of an underlying affinity between Socrates and the sophists, the antagonists with whom he argues about justice, beauty, piety and nobility in Plato's dialogues
Parmenides is very commonly read as a turning point in Plato's philosophical development. Most scholars would assert that, in Parmenides, Plato seriously criticizes his theory of forms. According to s
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingra
Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingra
This book proposes and defends a radically new account of Plato's method of argument and enquiry in his early dialogues. Vasilis Politis challenges the traditional account according to which these dialogues are basically about the demand for definitions, and questions the equally traditional view that what lies behind Plato's method of argument is a peculiar theory of knowledge. He argues that these dialogues are enquiries set in motion by dilemmas and aporiai, incorporating both a sceptical and an anti-sceptical dimension, and he contends that Plato introduces the demand for definitions, and the search for essences, precisely in order to avoid a sceptical conclusion and hold out the prospect that knowledge can be achieved. His argument will be of great value to all readers interested in Plato's dialogues and in methods of philosophical argument more generally.
Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from le
