Charles Ives

Socrates' Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus's cosmology to Socrates' request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue's concern for education apropos of the medical dimensions of Timaeus' physics, the project of becoming like god, and the philosophical soul responsible for success on the battlefield.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781498528504
• ISBN-10: 1498528503
• Artikelnr.: 47772074

Autorenporträt

Charles Ives is lecturer at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Socrates' Request: Encomium
Education
and War 2. The Educational Program of the Timaeus in Outline: Medicine
Cause
and the Tripartite Structure of Timaeus' Speech 3. Framing the Educational Narrative: Becoming Like God in Two Tasks 4. Motivating Education: Incarnation and Becoming Emphr¿n 5. The Intellectual for the Sake of the Psycho-Political: Applied Mathematics
Force
and the Two Senses of Philosophia 6. Epilogue: Philosophy and the Warrior