Andrea Nightingale (California Stanford University)

Gebundenes Buch

Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues

Beschreibung

Challenges the dominant idea that Plato is a secular thinker and shows how he uses specific aspects of Greek religion in his philosophy, especially the epiphanies of gods to humans, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Orphic mysteries.

Autor

Andrea Nightingale is a Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She has authored Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge, 1995), Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context (Cambridge, 2004), and Once out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body (2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837309
• ISBN-10: 1108837301
• Artikelnr.: 60551005