Education has long been romanticized by political thinkers for its supposed power to shape ideal selves and societies. This dissertation examines the history of political thought on education and contends that citizens are principally educated through socialization by law, cultu…
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El propósito originario de este trabajo tenía que ver con la idea directa que se traduce en el término acuñado por Platón: "ασωματος", “asómatos”, “incorpóreo”. El significado literal del término tanto en griego como en español parece ser muy claro y directo, en la medida en que…
This study provides the first intertextual reading of St. John of the Cross' spatial poetic against Plato's chora (jóora), the famous cosmogonic space/receptacle of the Timaeus. Plato conceives the symbolic chora as a containing receptacle, the space of all becoming, which recei…
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 thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions. The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death…
The purpose of this thesis is to defend Athenian democracy against a long-established suspicion that the Athenian government, with its radical form of popular participation, was not only incompetent but also dangerous. There are two serious misunderstandings in this traditional …
Lying far outside the canon, Lucian of Samosata was for decades considered a writer of frivolous epideictic, if not an outright plagiarist, cutting and pasting together material from the golden age of Greek literature. And while the second half of the twentieth century witnessed…
The dissertation focuses on the moment Egypt comes into currency in Greek literature and the rudiments of its historical contours begin to take shape. The appropriation of Egypt by Greeks informed the Greeks' sense of their own culture since, by invoking Egypt in their texts, th…
In Plato’s Symposium, we get a pessimistic myth not only about love, but about the first experience of loss, in which we were once globular cosmic beings who were split in two by Zeus’s thunderbolts as punishment for not obeying the Olympian gods. Falling down to earth after the…
This dissertation is a study of the intellectual practice of the Platonic character, Socrates, with emphasis on the presentation of dialectical engagement with authority. I argue that authority, conceptually and in practice, constitutes a serious problem for Socrates. On my read…
This thesis addresses the ontological and devotional legitimacy of Marian holy cards by comparing two schools of thought regarding the use of memory to access reality. I argue that the intention implied in liturgical anamnesis withstands Plato's critique of mimesis, demonstratin…
This dissertation argues that written form is essential, not accessory, to philosophical content, with particular focus on Plato and Zhuangzi. In the case of these two thinkers, the written forms they have left us are what I call poetic: full of metaphor, imagery, narrative, etc…
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…
This dissertation examines the relationship between philosophy and politics in the thought of Alfarabi and its source in the Greeks. It opens with his discussion of Plato's allegory of the cave, which highlights the two-fold character of philosophy as ascent out of and descent b…
This is a work of normative political philosophy that offers a broad philosophical framework for conceptualizing progressive and modern governance in a contemporary Islamic state. The model offered places primacy on traditional Islamic sources in organizing the state. However, i…