Platos Phaedo : Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life by David Ebrey (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Plato's Phaedo : Forms, Death and the Philosophical Life, Paperback by Ebrey, David, ISBN 1108790992, ISBN-13 9781108790994, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This comprehensiv on one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue's literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts. Topics include ethics, metaphysics, methodology, natural science, religion, cosmology, and the soul.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108790992

ISBN-139781108790994

eBay Product ID (ePID)20068555436

Product Key Features

Book TitlePlatos Phaedo : Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life

Number of PagesXii, 348 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorDavid Ebrey

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2022-025741

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220708

Reviews'David Ebrey's valuable scholarship on the Phaedo has consistently helped to deepen readers' understanding of this popular dialogue. In this stimulating new book he takes a holistic approach to the Phaedo, exploring it as a philosopher and classicist, as well as a reader of a 'literary gem' that is part of a rich cultural, religious, scientific, and philosophical tradition. Highly recommended.' Blake Hestir, Texas Christian University

Dewey Decimal184

Table Of Content1. 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.

SynopsisPlato'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., This comprehensive book on one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue's literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts. Topics include ethics, metaphysics, methodology, natural science, religion, cosmology, and the soul.

LC Classification NumberB379.E27 2022