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Author:   Franco Trabattoni
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.455kg
ISBN:  

9789004538221

ISBN 10:   9004538224
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Why Publish This Book? 2 Detailed Synopsis of the Book 1 Death 1 Dogmatism, Scepticism, etc. 2 Plato's 'Third Way' 3 Philosophy or Religion? 4 Immortality 5 Between Science and Ignorance 6 Conclusion 2 Suicide 1 Cebes's Amazement 2 The Argument 3 The Morality of Happiness 3 Virtue 1 The Philosopher and Virtue: A Digression? 2 A Contradiction between Phaedo and Republic? 3 Philosophy as Politics 4 Popular and Philosophical Virtue 5 The Philosopher According to Plato 6 The Political Relevance of Asceticism 7 Conclusion 4 The (True) Philosopher 1 Sokratismusstreit 2 The True Philosopher: The Identity between Theory and Practice 3 Antisthenes and the Use of Pleasures: From Xenophon's Symposium to Plato's Gorgias 4 Antisthenes in the Phaedo 5 Philosophy and the Use of ????? 6 The Philosopher's Life and Death 5 Recollection 1 Recollection as Demonstration of Immortality 2 Recollection as Condition of Possibility of Knowledge 3 Problems Solved 4 Recollection as Explanation of Human Middle Condition 5 Meno 85c-d 6 Episteme and Doxa 6 Harmony 1 Soul as Harmony: The Pythagorical Background 2 Socrates' Second Argument 3 Socrate's Third Argument 4 The Crucial Premise of the Third Argument 5 The Philosophical Significance of Socrate's Refutation 7 Causes 1 Methodological Problems 2 The Causes of Generation, Corruption and Being 3 The Physical Causes: Socrates' Dissatisfaction 4 What Is the Problem? 5 Eleatic Background 6 Conclusion 8 Voyage(s) 1 'Deuteros plous' 2 What Is the First Voyage? 3 Images 4 The Logos Hardest to Disprove 5 Deuteros Plous in Philebus 6 Deuteros Plous in Statesman 7 Conclusion 9 Life 1 The 'Last Argument' 2 What Occupies What? 3 Immortal and Indestructible 4 Conclusion Works Cited

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Franco Trabattoni is Full Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Milan. His main research interests concern Plato's philosophy, to which he has devoted a number of publications, including Essays on Plato's Epistemology (Leuven, 2016).

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