This book argues that, rather than being conceived merely as a hindrance, the body contributes constructively in the fashioning of a Platonic unified self. The Phaedo shows awareness that the indeterminacy inherent in the body infects the validity of any scientific argument but …
"Plato and Aristophanes claims that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. Marina Marren strikes up a conversation between three of Aristophanes's comedies--Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds--and Plato's Republic, prompting questions about one's convi…
"Plato and Aristophanes claims that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. Marina Marren strikes up a conversation between three of Aristophanes's comedies-Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds-and Plato's Republic, prompting questions about one's convict…
In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes prov…
Introduction. Philosophical Comedy as an Aesthetic Critique of Political Ideals -- Plato's and Aristophanes's Comedy -- Communist Terror: Republic V and VIII and the Assembly Women -- The Rule of Satiated Mediocrity: Republic VI and the Knights -- Failures of High-Minded Politic…
"Plato and Aristophanes claims that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. Marina Marren strikes up a conversation between three of Aristophanes's comedies-Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds-and Plato's Republic, prompting questions about one's convict…
"Plato and Aristophanes claims that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. Marina Marren strikes up a conversation between three of Aristophanes's comedies-Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds-and Plato's Republic, prompting questions about one's convict…
The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together …
"The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together…
The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together …
In this book, author Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis.
