From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

Trabattoni, Franco

Brill

01/2023

190

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Inglês

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Introduction

?1 Why Publish This Book?
?2 Detailed Synopsis of the Book


1 Death

?1 Dogmatism, Scepticism, etc.

?2 Plato's 'Third Way'

?3 Philosophy or Religion?

?4 Immortality

?5 Between Science and Ignorance

?6 Conclusion


2 Suicide

?1 Cebes's Amazement

?2 The Argument

?3 The Morality of Happiness



3 Virtue

?1 The Philosopher and Virtue: A Digression?

?2 A Contradiction between Phaedo and Republic?

?3 Philosophy as Politics

?4 Popular and Philosophical Virtue

?5 The Philosopher According to Plato

?6 The Political Relevance of Asceticism

?7 Conclusion



4 The (True) Philosopher

?1 Sokratismusstreit

?2 The True Philosopher: The Identity between Theory and Practice

?3 Antisthenes and the Use of Pleasures: From Xenophon's Symposium to Plato's Gorgias

?4 Antisthenes in the Phaedo

?5 Philosophy and the Use of ?????

?6 The Philosopher's Life and Death



5 Recollection

?1 Recollection as Demonstration of Immortality

?2 Recollection as Condition of Possibility of Knowledge

?3 Problems Solved

?4 Recollection as Explanation of Human Middle Condition

?5 Meno 85c-d

?6 Episteme and Doxa



6 Harmony

?1 Soul as Harmony: The Pythagorical Background

?2 Socrates' Second Argument

?3 Socrate's Third Argument

?4 The Crucial Premise of the Third Argument

?5 The Philosophical Significance of Socrate's Refutation



7 Causes

?1 Methodological Problems

?2 The Causes of Generation, Corruption and Being

?3 The Physical Causes: Socrates' Dissatisfaction

?4 What Is the Problem?

?5 Eleatic Background

?6 Conclusion



8 Voyage(s)

?1 'Deuteros plous'

?2 What Is the "First Voyage?"

?3 Images

?4 The Logos "Hardest to Disprove"

?5 Deuteros Plous in Philebus

?6 Deuteros Plous in Statesman

?7 Conclusion



9 Life

?1 The 'Last Argument'

?2 What Occupies What?

?3 Immortal and Indestructible

?4 Conclusion



Works Cited
Body; Causes; Death; Forms; Immortality; Life; Phaedo; Plato; Recollection