Plato's power edited by Carolina Araújo

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Araújo, Carolina (Carolina de Melo Bomfim), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Characters and characteristics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston Brill [2025]

Summary:

"What do we mean when we say that something has power? Plato's dialogues are probably the first philosophical corpus to address this question. Powers are causes; they account for how events happen. They are properties that agents have, as well as dispositions in those who suffer the effects of an action. This explanation is the basis of Plato's metaphysics and moral philosophy. He proposed that things are the power they have to act or be acted upon; this is their nature. This book brings together a group of specialists to guide the reader through this fascinating theory"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Carolina Araújo

Plato and "Hippocrates" on Nature and Power : Reading Phaedrus 269d-272b in the Light of the Hippocratic Treatise On Ancient Medicine / Arnaud Macé

Active and Passive Powers in Plato? : a Speculative Chapter in the History of Causality / Thomas Tuozzo

Powers as First Causes of Generation in Plato's Timaeus / Carolina Araújo

Power, Participation, and the Greatest Difficulty in Plato's Parmenides / Mary Louise Gill

Plato's Central Conception of Being as Dynamis in the Sophist / Fiona Leigh

Dynamis and Agency in the Sophist / Edward C. Halper

Movement, Life, Soul and Intelligence: the Dynamis of Being at Sophist 248e-249a and Its Reception in the History of Platonism / Francesco Fronterotta

Plato's Philebus on Mixing the Powers of Pleasure and Knowledge in a Good Life / Cristina Ionescu

The Possibility of Reflexive Powers in Plato: an Unsolved Problem in the Charmides / Francisco J. Gonzalez

Power in the Hippias Minor / Hugh H. Benson

Does Socrates' Divine Sign Have a Dynamis? / Louis-André Dorion

Power and Willing Action in Plato / Andrew Payne

Notes towards a New Interpretation of the Virtues in the Republic / Merrick Anderson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; digital images

Other Format:

Print version Plato's power

ISBN:

9004722041

9789004722040

OCLC:

1467697268

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