Philosophy in Dialogue : Plato's Many Devices

GERARD KUPERUS endeavor closely resembling sailing through the ocean, which is never the same. As a metaphor for dialectic, navi ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES ences, although I have attempted to include all sailing and navigation meta- phors that refer to method. ...

GERARD KUPERUS Republic, 533c. Republic, 533d. Plato, Phaedo, in Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, trans. H ...

TRAVELING WITH SOCRATES the diffi culty, or in fact the impossibility, of fi nding ways that lead to the truth. In the two dialo ...

212212 In Plato’s Image Jill Gordon And a wolf is very like a dog, the wildest like the tamest of ani- mals. But the cautious ma ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE might even say that Socrates fl aunts his ugly visage.^1 These images form so integral a part of the dialogues ...

JILL GORDON fi nite, mutable objects of our experience. And beyond our sense experi- ence, Plato relies on the fancy of our imag ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE companionship disturbs the soul and hinders it from attaining truth and wisdom? Is not this the man, Simmias, i ...

JILL GORDON “Very true,” he replied. “And it is either like them or unlike them?” “Certainly.” “It makes no difference,” said he ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE take place within the realm of appearances. The reason why it must take place there is central to the Phaedo. T ...

JILL GORDON form of an image. Simmias likens the soul to a harmony and the body to a lyre, asking whether the soul might be dest ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE soul, Socrates fi nds it necessary once again to attenuate: “There are still many subjects for doubt and many p ...

JILL GORDON midst of our philosophical argumentation. It is not a foolproof method; it will fail us at times, and it might lead ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE “Who then, Diotima,” I asked, “are the lovers of wisdom, if they are neither the wise nor the ignorant?” “Why, ...

JILL GORDON He pays particular attention to the manner in which the soul can and should be discussed, claiming that it should no ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE of a philosopher or a lover of beauty, and all human souls glimpse what they once knew by means of recollection ...

JILL GORDON their search lies in the diffi culty they face if they claim that the sophist deals with false discourse or creates ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE at the present moment come to an agreement about the nature of discourse, and if we were robbed of it by its ab ...

JILL GORDON beings we might use images to ascend to the realities, but we cannot confuse the two. We cannot change our fi nite, ...

IN PLATO’S IMAGE any embodied being, would ever be able to explain the nature of the realities, and whether the image of the sun ...