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Plato's Myths
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What the ancient Greeks—at least in the archaic phase of their
civilization—called muthos was quite different from what
we and the media nowadays call “myth”. For them a
muthos ... Plato broke to some extent from the
philosophical tradition of the sixth and fifth centuries in that he
uses both traditional myths and myths he invents and gives them some
role to play in his philosophical ...
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Catalin Partenie
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/plato-myths/
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Plato
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Plato (429–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most
dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most
penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of
philosophy. An Athenian citizen of high status, he displays in his
works his absorption in ...
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Richard Kraut
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/plato/
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Plato's Aesthetics
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If aesthetics is the philosophical inquiry into art and beauty (or a
contemporary surrogate for beauty, e.g. aesthetic value), the striking
feature of Plato's dialogues is that he devotes so much time to both
topics but treats them oppositely. Art, mostly as represented by
poetry, is closer to a ...
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Nickolas Pappas
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/plato-aesthetics/
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Plato on utopia
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The Laws is one of Plato's last dialogues. In it, he sketches
the basic political structure and laws of an ideal city named Magnesia.
Despite the fact that the Laws treats a number of basic issues
in political and ethical philosophy as well as theology, it has
suffered neglect compared with the Republic. ...
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Chris Bobonich and Katherine Meadows
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/plato-utopia/
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Socrates
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Constantin Brancusi. Socrates
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art;
Licensed by Scala/Art Resource, NY
©2005 Artists Rights Society (ARS),
New York/ADAGP, Paris
... Plato, as it is to
virtually any interpretation, because Socrates is the dominant figure
in most of Plato's dialogues.
1. Socrates' strangeness
2. The Socratic problem: Who was Socrates really?
2.1 ...
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Debra Nails
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/socrates/
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