The Tragedy and Comedy of Life
Plato's Philebus
In The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogues, the Philebus. Traditionally the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body. Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrates vindicates the life of the mind over the life of pleasure not by separating the two and advocating a strict asceticism, but by mixing pleasure and pain with mind in such a way that the philosophic life emerges as the only possible human life. Benardete combines a pro…
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Weitere Autoren: Benardete, Seth (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-226-04276-3
- EAN: 9780226042763
- Produktnummer: 4347420
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.0 cm x D1.3 cm 416 g
- Gewicht: 416
- Sonstiges: Further/Higher Education
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Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was a classicist and philosopher who taught at New York University and the New School. He is the author of many books.
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