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Plato and Europe / Jan Patočka ; translated by Petr Lom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patočka, Jan, 1907-1977.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Standardized Title:
- Platón a Evropa. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plato.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Europe--Civilization.
- Europe.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Czech.
- Summary:
- The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his most mature ideas about the history of Western philosophy.
- Contents:
- The Situation of Mankind
- The State of Europe
- What Is the Phenomenon?
- Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy
- Phenomenon and Truth
- Phenomenology and Gnoseology
- The Two Sides of Myth
- The Mythical Framework of Greek Philosophy
- Clarity and Blind Wandering [bloudeni] in the Mythical World
- The Birth of Philosophy as the Explicit Question Face to Face with the Original Manifesting of the World
- The Pre-Socratics
- The Philosophical Problem
- Conception of the Soul and Care of the Soul in Democritus and Plato
- The Principle of Freedom in the Greek World
- Socrates
- Care of the Soul and the Heritage of Europe
- The Examination of the Soul
- Ontocosmological Modality of the Care of the Soul in Plato: The Teaching About Ideas and Mathematics
- Introduction to the Problem of the Platonic State
- The Care of the Soul in the City: Politeia
- The Transformation of Myth into Religion
- The Care of the Soul as Movement: The Discovery of Eternity
- The Metaphysical Foundation of Europe's Heritage
- Being and Phenomenon
- Rendering More Precise the Account of Myth: Philosophy as the Surfacing of Problematicity
- Care of the Soul and Finitude
- Discussion (Continuation)
- The Transformation of the Ontological Project in Aristotle
- The Return to the Cave
- The Movement of the Care of the Soul in Plato and Aristotle
- Thematization of Action in Aristotle
- Human Freedom and Its Problematicity
- Nicomachean Ethics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0804738009
- 0804738017
- OCLC:
- 47056423
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