Plato's World: Man's Place in the CosmosIn this culmination of a lifetime's study, Joseph Cropsey examines the crucial relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues—Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo—in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is often unreasonable, and populated by human beings unaided by gods and dealt with equivocally by nature. Masterfully leading the reader through the seven scenes of the drama, Cropsey shows how they are, to an astonishing degree, concerned with the resources available to help us survive in such a world. This is a world—and a Plato—quite at odds with most other portraits. Much more than a summary of Plato's thinking, this book is an eloquent, sometimes amusing, often moving guide to the paradoxes and insights of Plato's philosophy. |
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Page 65 - Is the holy loved by the gods because it is holy ; or is it holy, because it is loved ? Euth.
Page 175 - I investigate not these things, but myself, to know whether I am a monster more complicated and more furious than Typhon or a gentler and simpler creature...
Page 221 - ... the other senses, in far greater perfection, in the same degree that air is purer than water or the ether than air. Also they have temples and sacred places in which the gods really dwell, and they hear their voices and receive their answers, and are conscious of them and hold converse with them, and they see the sun, moon, and stars as they really are, and their other blessedness is of a piece with this.
Page 75 - ... another name ? THEAET. Of course. STR. And what is that name ? Try to tell. THEAET. It is obvious ; for I think we have discovered the sophist. And therefore by uttering that word I think I should give him the right name. STR. Then, as it seems, according to our present reasoning, Theaetetus, the part of appropriative, coercive, hunting art which hunts animals, land animals, tame animals, man, privately, for pay, is paid in cash, claims to give education, and is a hunt after rich and promising...
Page 184 - These may be very wrong ; but in any commercial dishonesty there is some of that love of money which is the root of all evil.
Page 8 - We observe that without the contraband arts the human beings would have been not only unable to honor the mean and myopic Olympians with works of art but also unmoved to do so, since the possession of arts encourages introspective man to see a god within. As Plato fashions this skillful projection of Protagoras, the persistent tendency of the great sophist to link humanity to divinity through...
Page 25 - It would be supreme folly to conclude that if a transcendental basis for virtue has not been certified by the universe, a valid immanent one is unavailable. If living and commodious living and the pursuit of wisdom in peace depend on the flourishing of cities, why disparage as merely conventional the orders and rules that nourish the polities?
Page 75 - The definition of the sophist's art reached by this second way is "that part of acquisitive art, art of exchange, of trafficking, of merchandising, of soul-merchandising which deals in words and knowledge, and trades in virtue.
Page 211 - ... you would pay him no attention and you would not reply to him until you had examined the consequences to see whether they agreed with one another or not ; and when you had to give an explanation of the principle, you would give it in the same way by assuming some other principle which seemed to you the best of the higher ones, and so on until you 'reached one which was adequate. You would not mix things up, as...
Page 27 - ... perfectly correctly (fig. 6). Intrigued, I ordered one and hung it in our kitchen, where it never fails to baffle our guests, who are convinced that some kind of trick is being played on them! NOTES AND SOURCES 1. However, the definiton of "angle" as a concept has always been problematic; see Euclid, The Elements, translated with introduction and commentary by Sir Thomas Heath (Annapolis, Md.: St. John's College Press, 1947), vol. 1, pp. 176-181. 2. On this subject, see David Eugene Smith, History...
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| Titre | Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos University of Chicago Sociological Series |
| Auteur | Joseph Cropsey |
| Édition | révisée |
| Éditeur | University of Chicago Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0226121224, 9780226121222 |
| Longueur | 238 pages |
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