Plato's dialectic at play : argument, structure, and myth in the Symposium /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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[United States] :
Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla,
2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Apollodorus's Prologue: An Imitation of an Imitation
- 1.1 The Historical Frame
- 1.2 Apollodorus and Mimetic Narrative
- 1.3 The Force of Hybris
- 1.4 Malakos versus Manikos: Soft or Mad?
- 1.5 Anachronisms?
- 2. Aristodemus's Prologue: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Frame of Reference
- 2.1 The Story
- 2.2 Sufficiency and Beauty: Emerging Criteria for Judgment
- 2.3 The Spatial Order?
- 2.4 Mimetic versus Hubristic: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Narrative
- 2.5 Sophistic Education in the Context of Other Dialogues: Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic
- 2.6 Between Religious Observance and the Cycle of Opposites
- 2.7 "The Father of the Discourse"
- 3. The Order of the Speeches: Formulating the Problem
- 3.1 Eros
- 3.2 Encomium
- 3.3 The Problem of the Significance of the Early Speeches
- 4. From Character to Speech: The Early Speeches and Their Significance
- 4.1 Phaedrus: The Ardent Apprentice, but Confused Mythologue
- 4.2 Pausanias: The Sophistic Sociologue
- 4.3 Hiccups and Eryximachus, the Homogenic Doctor-Scientist
- 4.4 Aristophanes: The Poet as Educator
- 4.4.1 Aristophanes' Speech and Socrates' Criticism of Mimetic Art in the Republic 70
- 4.4.2 The Possibility of Anachronism and Plato's Vanishing Signature
- 4.4.3 Aristophanes' Speech as a Parody of Philosophical Dialectic
- 4.4.4 Aristophanes' Speech and Individual Identity
- 4.4.5 Aristophanes' Hiccups Revisited
- 4.5 Agathon: The Sophistic Theologue as the "Climax" of an Unselfcritical Tradition
- 4.5.1 Advance over the Previous Speakers?
- 4.5.2 Agathon as Theologue Without Need
- 4.5.3 The Shadow of the "Good": Agathon's Portrait in the Context of the Republic
- 4.6 Conclusion
- 5. Diotima-Socrates: Mythical Thought in the Making
- 5.1 Introduction: The Problem
- 5.2 The Elenchus of Agathon and the Question of Truth
- 5.3 The Role of Diotima
- 5.4 Eros-Daimôn
- 5.5 Diotima and the Art of Mythmaking Revisited: The Birth of Eros
- 5.6 Love: Relation or Substance?
- 5.7 Rhetoric and Dialectic
- 5.8 Criticism of Aristophanes and Agathon
- 5.9 The Curious Case of Procreation in the Beautiful
- 5.10 The Concluding Sections of the Lesser Mysteries
- 5.11 Preliminary Conclusion
- 6. The Greater Mysteries and the Structure of the Symposium So Far
- 6.1 The Movement of Ascent: Structure
- 6.2 The Movement of Ascent and the Earlier Speeches
- 6.3 Immortality and God-Belovedness
- 6.4 Overall Conclusion
- 6.4.1 "Platonic Love": The View So Far
- 7. Alcibiades and the Conclusion of the Symposium: The Test and Trial of Praise
- 7.1 The Figure of Dionysus and the Face of Socrates
- 7.2 The Role of Alcibiades
- 7.3 The Test of Praise
- 7.4 The Trial of Praise