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Understanding Life and Death through Plato and Socrates : Philosophy as a Confrontation with Eternity.
It fills in a gap by outlining the ways that Plato and Socrates talk about life and death. There is also a lengthy discussion of how Aristophanes responded with satirical exaggerations of their positions. This author focuses entirely on how death and eternity are integral thematic components of the...
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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| 520 | |a It fills in a gap by outlining the ways that Plato and Socrates talk about life and death. There is also a lengthy discussion of how Aristophanes responded with satirical exaggerations of their positions. This author focuses entirely on how death and eternity are integral thematic components of the Platonic dialogues. The contribution is in drawing on copious secondary material to make the argument that all great philosophy must serve as a confrontation with eternity. It must make the audience resolve the issue of their own mortality by confronting our precarious place in the cosmos. Eternity. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Recovering Philosophy; Chapter 2: Reading Plato; Chapter 3: Divine Authority in Aristophanes' Clouds; Chapter 4: Piety and Prophecy in Plato's Euthoyphro; Chapter 5: Death and the Soul in Plato's Phaedo; Chapter 6: The Possibility of Philosophy; Bibliography; Index | |
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