David Ebrey

Plato's Phaedo (eBook, ePUB)

Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plato's Phaedo is a literary gem that develops many of his most famous ideas. David Ebrey's careful reinterpretation argues that the many debates about the dialogue cannot be resolved so long as we consider its passages in relative isolation from one another, separated from their intellectual background. His book shows how Plato responds to his literary, religious, scientific, and philosophical context, and argues that we can only understand the dialogue's central ideas and arguments in light of its overall structure. This approach yields new interpretations of the dialogue's key ideas, including the nature and existence of 'Platonic' forms, the existence of the soul after death, the method of hypothesis, and the contemplative ethical ideal. Moreover, this comprehensive approach shows how the characters play an integral role in the Phaedo's development and how its literary structure complements Socrates' views while making its own distinctive contribution to the dialogue's drama and ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108846318
• Artikelnr.: 70913652

Autorenporträt

David Ebrey is co-editor (with Richard Kraut) of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (2022), editor of Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science (2015), and the author of articles on a variety of topics in Plato and Aristotle.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Characters; 2. The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy and Socrates as a Poet: 57a
61c; 3. Defense of the Desire to be Dead: 61c
69e; 4. Cebes' Challenge and the Cyclical Argument: 69e
72d; 5. The Recollecting Argument: 72e
77d; 6. The Kinship Argument: 77d
80d; 7. The Return to the Defense: 80d
84b; 8. Misology and the Soul as a Harmonia: 84c
86e, 88c
95a; 9. Socrates' Autobiography: 95e
102a; 10. Cebes' Objection and the Final Argument: 86e
88b, 102b
107b; 11. The Cosmos and the Afterlife: 107c
115a; 12. The Death Scene: 115a
118a.