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Plato and the Invention of Life /

While the question of life (whether bios or zoe) is not the explicit focus of any Platonic dialogue, it is, this work argues, an absolutely central and structuring question for all of Plato's thought and, perhaps especially, for his ontology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Naas, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philosophy's Gigantomachia over life and being
  • The lifelines of the statesman
  • Life and spontaneity
  • The shepherd and the weaver: a Foucauldian fable
  • The measure of life and logos
  • Fruits of the poisonous tree: Plato and Alcidamas on the evils of writing
  • The life of law and the law of life
  • Plato and the invention of life itself
  • Life on the line.