Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher
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Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

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Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

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This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus ), as the good city ( Republic ), and as the philosopher ( Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman ). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues.

Those exceptional elements of experience – love, city, philosopher – do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical ambition to intensify the concepts and experiences one normally thinks with. His investigations point beyond the fates of these particular exceptions to broader conclusions about Plato's world.

Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher will be of interest to any readers of Plato, and of ancient philosophy more broadly.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781000092882
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Epigraph and note
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I Why love must be good: Kinds of erôs in Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus
  9. 1 Congenital love: Aristophanic erĂ´s in the Symposium
  10. 2 Telling good love from bad: ErĂ´s in the Phaedrus
  11. Part II How a city is made better: The polis in Plato’s Republic
  12. 3 Speaking of tyrants: Gyges and the Republic’s city
  13. 4 The news of the new city
  14. 5 “And then I saw”: The myth of Er and the future city
  15. Part III Where to find the best philosophers: The philosophos in Plato’s Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
  16. 6 “You wise people”: The Ion on what sets a philosopher apart
  17. 7 Philosophers at last: Theaetetus, Socrates, and the head philosopher
  18. 8 The Sophist: The sophist with and without philosophy
  19. 9 The Statesman: The little difference that makes philosophy
  20. Index