From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

Franco Trabattoni (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53822-1 (ISBN)

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This book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato’s Phaedo and provides an overall interpretation of the dialogue. For each of the topics (or Platonic passages) analysed, the book presents a detailed assessment and discussion of the most prominent scholarship. On the basis of this approach, From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo intends to offer new contributions to the current scholarly discussion, particularly with regard to the knowability of the Forms, “recollection”, the doctrine of the soul as a harmony, the problem of causes, and the so-called “second voyage”. This book is expected to spark debate among scholars both in terms of the critical assessment of the theses it proposes and of the objections it raises against alternative interpretations.

Franco Trabattoni is Full Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Milan. His main research interests concern Plato’s philosophy, to which he has devoted a number of publications, including Essays on Plato's Epistemology (Leuven, 2016).

Introduction

1Why Publish This Book?
2Detailed Synopsis of the Book

1 Death

1Dogmatism, Scepticism, etc.

2Plato’s ‘Third Way’

3Philosophy or Religion?

4Immortality

5Between Science and Ignorance

6Conclusion

2 Suicide

1Cebes’s Amazement

2The Argument

3The Morality of Happiness

3 Virtue

1The Philosopher and Virtue: A Digression?

2A Contradiction between Phaedo and Republic?

3Philosophy as Politics

4Popular and Philosophical Virtue

5The Philosopher According to Plato

6The Political Relevance of Asceticism

7Conclusion

4 The (True) Philosopher

1Sokratismusstreit

2The True Philosopher: The Identity between Theory and Practice

3Antisthenes and the Use of Pleasures: From Xenophon’s Symposium to Plato’s Gorgias

4Antisthenes in the Phaedo

5Philosophy and the Use of ?????

6The Philosopher’s Life and Death

5 Recollection

1Recollection as Demonstration of Immortality

2Recollection as Condition of Possibility of Knowledge

3Problems Solved

4Recollection as Explanation of Human Middle Condition

5Meno 85c–d

6Episteme and Doxa

6 Harmony

1Soul as Harmony: The Pythagorical Background

2Socrates’ Second Argument

3Socrate’s Third Argument

4The Crucial Premise of the Third Argument

5The Philosophical Significance of Socrate’s Refutation

7 Causes

1Methodological Problems

2The Causes of Generation, Corruption and Being

3The Physical Causes: Socrates’ Dissatisfaction

4What Is the Problem?

5Eleatic Background

6Conclusion

8 Voyage(s)

1‘Deuteros plous’

2What Is the “First Voyage?”

3Images

4The Logos “Hardest to Disprove”

5Deuteros Plous in Philebus

6Deuteros Plous in Statesman

7Conclusion

9 Life

1The ‘Last Argument’

2What Occupies What?

3Immortal and Indestructible

4Conclusion

Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Plato Studies Series ; 14
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	455 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-53822-4 / 9004538224
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53822-1 / 9789004538221
Zustand	Neuware