Terry Penner

Plato's Lysis (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Lysis is one of Plato's most engaging but also puzzling dialogues; it has often been regarded, in the modern period, as a philosophical failure. The full philosophical and literary exploration of the dialogue illustrates how it in fact provides a systematic and coherent, if incomplete, account of a special theory about, and special explanation of, human desire and action. Furthermore, it shows how that theory and explanation are fundamental to a whole range of other Platonic dialogues and indeed to the understanding of the corpus as a whole. Part One offers an analysis of, or running commentary on, the dialogue. In Part Two Professors Penner and Rowe examine the philosophical and methodological implications of the argument uncovered by the analysis. The whole is rounded off by an epilogue of the relation between the Lysis and some other Platonic (and Aristotelian) texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511128554
• Artikelnr.: 38188846

Autorenporträt

Terry Penner is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and was, for a time, Affiliate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Spring 2005 he was A. G. Leventis Visiting Research Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. His previous publications include The Ascent from Nominalism: Some Existence Arguments in Plato's Middle Dialogues(1986) and numerous articles on Socrates.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. An Analysis of the Lysis: 1. 203AI-207B7: the cast assembles and the main conversation is set up
2. 207B8-210D8 (Socrates and Lysis): do Lysis' parents really love him?
3. 210EI-213C9: Socrates and Menexenus - how does one get a friend?
4. 213DI-216B9: Socrates and Lysis again, then Menexenus - poets and cosmologists on what is friend of what (like of like: or opposite of opposite?)
5. 216CI-221D6: what it is that loves, what it really loves and why
6. 221D6-222B2: the main argument reaches its conclusion
7. 222B3-E7: some further questions from Socrates about the argument, leading to (apparent) impasse
8. 223AI-B8: the dialogue ends - people will say that Socrates and the boys think they are friends, but they haven't been able to discover what 'the friend' is
9. 203AI-207B7 revisited
Part II. The Theory of the Lysis: 10. A rereading of the Lysis: some preliminaries
11. A rereading of the Lysis
12. On seeking the good of others independently of one's own good
and other unfinished business
Epilogue
Translation of the Lysis
Bibliography
Indexes.