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Plato's \Letters\
In Plato's \"Letters\"
, Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a
highly literal translation of the
Letters , complete with extensive
notes on historical context and issues of manuscript
transmission. His analysis presents a necessary
perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters
as a work of Platonic philosophy.
Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of
Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the
Letters is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from
within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original
essays, Helfer describes how the Letters was written as a
single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent
teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and
intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus.
Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary
novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical
literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide
his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply
about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and
political advisor.
Plato's \"Letters\" not only defends what Helfer calls
the \"literary unity thesis\" by reviewing the scholarly history
pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the
political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result,
Plato's \"Letters\" recovers and rehabilitates what has been
until now a minority view concerning the Letters ,
according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of
tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political
philosophy.
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Le Mystere de Platon: Aglaophamos
Extrait : \"Timon. Quel dieu, mon cher Arkesilaos, t'a envoye le bonheur ? Ton visage respire la joie. Aurais-tu gagne cette gageure que tu fis, la semaine derniere, devant tes disciples, de convertir a la morale du Portique la courtisane Theodeta ? As-tu persuade le vieil Epikouros de la necessite d'etudier les sciences ? Ou bien, admire jusqu'ou peuvent aller mes suppositions quand j'ai devant les yeux un philosophe qui sourit.\"A PROPOS DES EDITIONS LIGARAN : Les editions LIGARAN proposent des versions numeriques de grands classiques de la litterature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : * Fiction : roman, poesie, theatre, jeunesse, policier, libertin. * Non fiction : histoire, essais, biographies, pratiques.
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On Beauty and Measure
On Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher
John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the
Symposium and the Statesman . Drawn from two
lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and
most sustained engagement to date with either work.
Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's
dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate
the overarching themes that drive the dialogues.
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From Plato to Platonism
Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato's own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. InFrom Plato to Platonism, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conclusion in an especially ingenious manner, challenging fundamental assumptions about how Plato's teachings have come to be understood. Through deft readings of the philosophical principles found in Plato's dialogues and in the Platonic tradition beginning with Aristotle, he shows that Platonism, broadly conceived, is the polar opposite of naturalism and that the history of philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century was the history of various efforts to find the most consistent and complete version of \"anti-naturalism.\"
Gerson contends that the philosophical position of Plato-Plato's own Platonism, so to speak-was produced out of a matrix he calls \"Ur-Platonism.\" According to Gerson, Ur-Platonism is the conjunction of five \"antis\" that in total arrive at anti-naturalism: anti-nominalism, anti-mechanism, anti-materialism, anti-relativism, and anti-skepticism. Plato's Platonism is an attempt to construct the most consistent and defensible positive system uniting the five \"antis.\" It is also the system that all later Platonists throughout Antiquity attributed to Plato when countering attacks from critics including Peripatetics, Stoics, and Sceptics. In conclusion, Gerson shows that Late Antique philosophers such as Proclus were right in regarding Plotinus as \"the great exegete of the Platonic revelation.\"
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