Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls

272 Pages·2001·1.135 MB·English

by  Zdravko Planinc

Politics, Philosophy,
Writing:
Plato's Art of Caring for
Souls
Zdravko Planinc,
Editor
University of Missouri Press
Politics, Philosophy,Writing
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Politics,
Philosophy,
Writing
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PLATO’S ART OF CARING FOR SOULS
Edited with an Introduction by Zdravko Planinc
University ofMissouri Press
Columbia and London
Copyright © 2001by
The Curators ofthe University ofMissouri
University ofMissouri Press,Columbia,Missouri 65201
Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica
All rights reserved
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Politics,philosophy,writing :Plato’s art ofcaring for souls / edited by Zdravko Planinc.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8262-1343-X (alk.paper)
1. Plato. I. Planinc,Zdravko,1953–
B395.P63 2001
184—dc21 00-066603
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Contents
Introduction 1
Zdravko Planinc
Soulcare and Soulcraft in the Charmides
Toward a Platonic Perspective 11
Horst Hutter
Shame in the Apology 42
Oona Eisenstadt
The Strange Misperception ofPlato’s Meno 60
Leon Craig
“A Lump Bred Up in Darknesse”
Two Tellurian Themes ofthe Republic 80
Barry Cooper
Homeric Imagery in Plato’s Phaedrus 122
Zdravko Planinc
“One,Two,Three,but Where Is the Fourth?”
Incomplete Mediation in the Timaeus 160
Kenneth Dorter
Mystic Philosophy in Plato’s Seventh Letter 179
James M.Rhodes
About the Contributors 249
Index 251
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