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The musical structure of Plato's dialogues /

J.B. Kennedy argues that Plato''s dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, J. B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature and history of philosophical allegory
  • Introducing the dialogues' musical structure
  • Independent lines of evidence
  • An emphatic pattern in the Symposium's frame
  • Making the Symposium's musical structure explicit
  • Parallel structure in the Euthyphro
  • Extracting doctrine from structure
  • Some implications