Foreigners as Liberators: Education and Cultural Diversity in Plato's Menexenus
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DOI: 10.1017/s0003055417000016
Abstract: Though recent scholarship challenges the traditional interpretation of Plato as anti-democratic, his antipathy to cultural diversity is still generally assumed. The Menexenus appears to offer some of the most striking evidence of Platonic xenophobia, as… read more here.
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Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe: An Interpretation of the Spirit of the Laws. By Vickie B. Sullivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 304p. $50.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718001470
Abstract: ingly Straussian vein, she has subjected it to auto-critique (pp. 110, 147). Similarly, in the vein of the readings of Plato by Straussians and Harry Berger, Jr., Frank highlights the importance of character over argument… read more here.
Keywords: justice; plato; philosophy; book ... See more keywords
Beauty, nobility, and desire: Ideals of gentlemanliness and the male body in Confucius and Plato
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DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2024.2385153
Abstract: ABSTRACT Both Plato and Confucius were deeply concerned with moral cultivation and political leadership, topics that were inherently gendered in ancient patriarchal societies. I show that both thinkers focused their discussions on concepts that were… read more here.
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Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine
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DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2022-012486
Abstract: By exploring a competition for authority on health and human nature between Plato and Hippocratic medicine, this paper offers a fresh perspective on an overarching debate today involving health and the role of healthcare in… read more here.
Keywords: health; today; social determinants; medicine ... See more keywords
An Iambic Quotation in Plato’s Timaeus
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DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-12347309
Abstract: At Timaeus 86d2 Plato quotes a line and a third of iambic trimeter probably from an unknown tragedy, possibly from a comedy. Its context is Timaeus’ argument that one suffering from diseases of the soul… read more here.
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Justice and the Supposed Fallacy of Irrelevance in Plato’s Republic
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DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340277
Abstract: Previous commentators on Plato’s Republic have relied on mistaken assumptions about the requirements for Plato’s theory of justice: that Plato establishes a bi-conditional between proper psychic rule and the performance of conventionally just acts. They… read more here.
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Herdsmen and Stargazers: the Science of Philosophy in Plato’s Statesman
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DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340299
Abstract: Together with the Sophist, Plato’s Statesman is often taken to introduce and develop a new scientific form of theoretical inquiry, represented by the Eleatic visitor. This paper draws on recent scholarship on the Sophist and… read more here.
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Burrowing a way: Plato’s cave and the labyrinth of creation
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DOI: 10.1177/0725513620976026
Abstract: Plato’s simile of the cave has for over two millennia been the model for a particular understanding of the limitated nature of human knowledge. Castoriadis’s understanding of human knowledge differs from Plato’s in that the… read more here.
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Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology by Riccardo Strobino (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/hph.2023.0025
Abstract: (176b8–c1), descends into the cave in the Laws, that is, addresses the details of legislation. But, as Centrone rightly observes, these are merely two sides of the same coin (321). In the Theaetetus, Plato, in… read more here.
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Anamnesis and the Silent Narrator in Plato and John
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DOI: 10.3390/rel8040047
Abstract: The Gospel of John is often compared to the dialogues of Plato by those who connect Johannine theology and Platonic philosophy. The comparison operates on the level of ideas. The present paper does not ignore… read more here.
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Separation and its language in Plato
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DOI: 10.4013/fsu.2017.183.09
Abstract: In this paper I present an original interpretation of the concept of separation in Plato. First, I argue that despite the fact that the ancient Greek word for “separation” almost never appears in the metaphysical… read more here.
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