Plato's Dialectic at Play
Argument, Structure, and Myth in the Symposium
The Symposium is one of Plato's most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato's Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play. Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to a picture of the dialogue's underlying structure, related to both argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between Diotima's higher myste…
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Weitere Autoren: Corrigan, Kevin
- ISBN: 978-0-271-02913-9
- EAN: 9780271029139
- Produktnummer: 18013077
- Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.9 cm 454 g
- Gewicht: 454
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of Gregory and Evagrius: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (2009); Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (2017); Plotinus, Ennead VI 8: On the Voluntary and on the Free Will of the One (2017, with John D. Turner).
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