Daniel S. Werner

Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781107629950
• ISBN-10: 1107629950
• Artikelnr.: 40548093

Autorenporträt

Daniel S. Werner is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, New Paltz. His articles have appeared in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Greece and Rome, Ancient Philosophy and International Philosophical Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Boreas, Typhon, and the allegorization of myth
3. The palinode: soul and eros
4. The palinode: forms and knowledge
5. The palinode: tradition and philosophy
6. The cicadas
7. Rhetoric and dialectic
8. Theuth, Thamus, and the critique of writing
9. The Phaedrus as a whole
10. Conclusion.