Philebus

Die Metapher der Mischung in den platonischen Dialogen Sophistes und Philebos

by Mouroutsou, Georgia

fromInternational Plato studies

0 Type: Book

The author situates the central Platonic concept of mixture within the context of participation (methexis) as a whole: the participation of the sensible things in the forms, the participation of the forms as well as the participation of the two Platonic principles. She rehabilit…

This thesis is a study of the theories of pleasure as proposed in Plato’s Philebus, Aristotle’s EN VII.11-14 and EN X.1-5, with particular emphasis on the value of pleasure. Focusing on the Philebus in Chapters 1 and 2, I argue that the account of pleasure as restorative process…

The argument in Plato's Philebus presents three successive formulations of the hedonist principle. Commentators often take Socrates' argument in the dialogue to be dealing solely with the third formulation, which states that pleasure, rather than intelligence, is closer in natur…