The Guardians in Action
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1786-7 (ISBN)
If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of that dialogue’s apparent lack of unity; or what is the purpose of the long discussion of the One in the second half of Parmenides, and how it relates to the objections made to the Theory of Forms in its first half; or if the revisionists or unitarians are right about Philebus, and why its Socrates seems less charming than usual, or whether or not Cratylus takes place after Euthyphro, and whether its far-fetched etymologies accomplish any serious philosophical purpose; or why the philosopher Socrates describes in the central digression of Theaetetus is so different from Socrates himself; then you will enjoy reading the continuation of William H. F. Altman’s Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012), where he considers the pedagogical connections behind “the post-Republic dialogues” from Timaeus to Theaetetus in the context of “the Reading Order of Plato’s dialogues.”
William H. F. Altman, an independent scholar now living in Brazil, is a retired public high school teacher with more than thirty years experience teaching history, Latin, and the humanities.
Preface: Plato the Teacher and the post-Republic Dialogues
Introduction: The Guardians in Action
1 Timaeus-Critias: “A Deceptive Cosmos of Words”
1. Cicero and Taylor’s Timaeus
2. Plato’s Parmenidean Pedagogy
3. Demiurge, World Soul, and Receptacle
4. The Missing Speech of the Absent Fourth
5. Critias, Phaedrus, and the Theological-Political Problem
2 Phaedrus as Fair Warning
6. “Whither, forsooth, and Whence?”
7. The Science of Deception
8. Introducing Collection and Division
9. The Three Speeches
10. Rereading Phaedrus
3 Parmenides as Preliminary Training
11. The Problem of the One and the Many
12. Three Dianoetic Interventions
13. Plato’s Trinity and Young Socrates
4 Philebus: “As if in Battle”
14. The Restoration
15. The Most Difficult Test: γένεσις εἰς οὐσίαν
16. Philebus and Reading Order
5 Beginning of the End: Cratylus and Theaetetus
17. False Assumptions and Midwifery
18. The Theaetetus Digression as Crisis: Fight or Flight?
19. Looking Forward and Back
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.02.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 1016 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-1786-2 / 1498517862 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-1786-7 / 9781498517867 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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