Trials of reason : Plato and the crafting of philosophy /
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=a10a65e442d940cca5be2e856be5eef8 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and indexes. |
ISBN: |
9780198043836 9780195327328 |
Index Number: | B395 |
CLC: | B502.232 |
Contents: | Interpretation -- Introduction -- Interpreting Plato -- The political culture of Plato's early dialogues -- Dialogue -- Character and history -- The mouthpiece principle -- Forms of evidence -- Desire -- Socrates and eros -- The subjectivist conception of desire -- Instrumental and terminal desire -- Rational and irrational desires -- Desire in the critique of Akrasia -- Interpreting Lysis -- The deficiency conception of desire -- Inauthentic friendship -- Platonic desire -- Antiphilosophical desires -- Knowledge -- Excellence as wisdom -- The epistemic unity of excellence -- Dunamis and techn?? -- Goodness and form -- The epistemological priority of definitional knowledge -- Ordinary ethical knowledge -- Method -- The Socratic fallacy -- Socrates' pursuit of definitions -- Hupothesis -- Two postulates -- The geometrical illustration -- Geometrical analysis -- The method of reasoning from a postulate -- Elenchus and hupothesis -- Knowledge and aitia -- F-conditions -- Cognitive security -- Aporia -- Forms of aporia -- Dramatic aporia -- The example of Charmides -- Charmides as autobiography -- The politics of S?tphrosun?? -- Critias' Philotimia -- Self-knowledge and the knowledge of knowledge -- Knowledge of knowledge and knowledge of the good -- Philosophy and the polis. |