Kevin Crotty

The Philosopher's Song

The Poets' Influence on Plato

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Produktbeschreibung

The Philosopher's Song explores the complex and fruitful relation between the great poets of Greek culture and Plato's invention of philosophy, especially as this bears on Plato's treatment of justice. The author shows how the poets helped shape the development of Plato's thinking throughout the course of his philosophical career.

Produktdetails

• Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780739144077
• ISBN-10: 0739144073
• Artikelnr.: 32243355

Autorenporträt

Kevin Crotty is professor of classics at Washington and Lee University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part One Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Achilles' Insight: Poetic and Moral
Consciousness in Homer Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Poetics of Justice:
Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic Part 4 Part Two Chapter 5 Chapter
3. Socrates' Intellectual Crisis: The Phaedo Chapter 6 Chapter 4. The
Greatest Charge Against Mimetic Poetry Part 7 Part Three Chapter 8 Chapter
5. The Metaphysics of Fallibility: The Sophist Chapter 9 Chapter 6. The
Statesman: The Tragedy of Politics and the Shape of Plato's Thought