McCoy Image and Argument in Plato's Republic

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7914-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCoy, Marina Berzins

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Poetry and the Republic

2. Visioning and Reenvisioning Justice

3. Paradigmatic Argument and Its Limits

4. Narrative, Poetry, and Analogical Strategies of Argument

5. Images of Justice

6. Image, Argument, and Comedy in the Ideal City

7. The Image of the Sun

8. The Divided Line and the Cave

9. Images of Imperfection

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Berzins McCoy is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. She is the author of Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy and Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists.