The philosopher's song : the poets' influence on Plato / Kevin Crotty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crotty, Kevin, 1948-

Series:

Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Philosopher's Song explores the complex and fruitful relation between the great poets of Greek culture and Plato's invention of philosophy, especially as this bears on Plato's treatment of justice. The author shows how the poets helped shape the development of Plato's thinking throughout the course of his philosophical career.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1. Achilles' Insight: Poetic and Moral Consciousness in Homer; Chapter 2. The Poetics of Justice: Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic; Part II; Chapter 3. Socrates' Intellectual Crisis: The Phaedo; Excursus to Chapter 3: Myth in Plato; Chapter 4. The Greatest Charge Against Mimetic Poetry; Part III; Chapter 5. The Metaphysics of Fallibility: The Sophist; Chapter 6. The Statesman: The Tragedy of Politics and the Shape of Plato's Thought; Excursus to Chapter 6: The Statesman as Philosophical Commentary on Sophocles' Antigone; Conclusion

BibliographyIndex; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-47929-6

9786612479298

0-7391-4408-1

OCLC:

609860024