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The Philosopher's Song : the Poets' Influence on Plato.

The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets we...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crotty, Kevin, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1. Achilles' Insight: Poetic and Moral Consciousness in Homer; Chapter 2. The Poetics of Justice: Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic; Part II; Chapter 3. Socrates' Intellectual Crisis: The Phaedo; Excursus to Chapter 3: Myth in Plato; Chapter 4. The Greatest Charge Against Mimetic Poetry; Part III; Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Fallibility: The Sophist; Chapter 6. The Statesman: The Tragedy of Politics and the Shape of Plato's Thought; Excursus to Chapter 6: The Statesman as Philosophical Commentary on Sophocles' Antigone; Conclusion.
  • BibliographyIndex; About the Author.