Love, knowledge, and discourse in Plato : dialogue and...

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Sinaiko, Herman L.

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University of Chicago Press

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[1965]

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English

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Dialogue and dialectic: Plato's philosophy and the written word

Dialectic in the Phaedrus: the Eros of the one and the many

The description of dialectic

Dialectic as exemplified in Socrates' two speeches

Socrates' first speech

Content and structure

The need for definition

The definition of love

The validity of the argument

Socrates' second speech

Intention, content, and structure

The introductory section of the speech

The proof of soul's immortality

Purpose and structure: the dialectical problem

The first section of the myth: the soul in its cosmic setting

The distinction between the gods and the other souls

The distinction between mortal and immortal living beings

Function of the soul (I): to have a care for what is soulless

Function of the soul (II): self-motion and the power of the wing

The heavenly host of souls

The ascent to the top of the vault of heavens

The feast of the gods

The feasting of the other souls

The decree of destiny

The human fate of the wingless souls and the divinely inspired madness of love

The conception of love in Socrates' second speech

Truth and dialectic in Socrates' second speech

The third structure of the myth: the process of generalization

The tripartite analysis of love reconsidered: interrelations of the parts and the whole

The process of division reconsidered: the movement from abstraction and simplicity to concreteness and complexity

The nature of Socrates' conception of love: the role of the multiple structure of the myth

The dialectical character of truth

Dialectic in the republic: the simile of light and the elenchus

The account of dialectic in book VII

The sun and the good

Introductory discussion: the theory of ideas and the nature of division

Step one: the establishment of the analogy between the sun and the good

Step two: perfect and private states of vision and knowledge

Step three: the sun and the good as causes of their respective realms: the definition of the good

The first part of the definition: the good as the cause of the actuality of the act of intelligence

The second part of the definition: the good as the cause of the potentiality of the act of intelligence

The lower half of the line: sensible images and originals

The line as a whole: being and becoming

The upper half of the line: hypotheticals and ideas

The "geography" of the cave

The "legislators" of the cave society

The journey of the released prisoner

The journey up and out

The return to the cave society

The unity of dialectic: the simile of light and the elenchus

Dialectic in the Parmenides: being and the reality of discourse

Socrates and Parmenides: the theory of ideas

The first argument: of what are there ideas

What is the relationship of the ideas to the many things?

The first argument: of what are there ideas

What is the relationship of the ideas to the many things? y Socrates to escape his difficulties

The fourth argument: the ideas are thoughts that exist in a mind

The fifth argument: the ideas may be patterns in nature which the many things resemble

The implications of Socrates' two attempts to defend the ideas

The sixth argument: how are the ideas known?

The premises of the argument: the two realms

The first consequence: the realm of the ideas is unknown to us

The second consequence: God (or the gods) cannot know us or our affairs

The conclusion of the criticism of the ideas

Positive results of the discussion between Socrates and Parmenides

The eight hypotheses

Transition and introduction to the eight hypotheses

What is to be done about philosophy?

The nature of the training required for philosophy

Parmenides' choice of an interlocutor

The eight hypotheses

The subject of the hypotheses

The first hypothesis: the one that is one

The second hypothesis: the one that is

Appendix to the second hypothesis: the fact of change and the conception of the moment

The third and fourth hypotheses: what follows with regard to the others if the one is?

The conclusion of the first half of the exercise

The fifth and sixth hypotheses: what follows with regard to the one if it is not?

The seventh and eighth hypotheses: what follows with regard to the others if one is not?

The conclusion of the exercise: discourse and the one

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Dialektik
Plato
Plato -- v427-v347
Platon -- Et la dialectique
Platon. -- Parménide
Platon. -- Phèdre
Platon. -- République

Love, knowledge, and discourse in Plato : dialogue and dialectic in Phaedrus, Republic, Parmenides

Love, knowledge, and discourse in Plato : dialogue and dialectic in Phaedrus, Republic, Parmenides / by Herman L. Sinaiko

Love, knowledge, and discourse in Plato

dialogue and dialectic in Phaedrus, Republic, Parmenides

Dialektik
Et la dialectique
Plato
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