From Death to Life.

• Superior document: Brill's Plato Studies
• Author: Trabattoni, Franco.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Plato Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 pages)

"This book aims to provide original solutions to a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato's Phaedo, along with an overall interpretation of the dialogue. For each of the topics (or Platonic passages) analysed, the book provides a detailed assessment and discussion of the latest scholarship. On the basis of this approach, From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo offers partially or widely innovative interpretations (particularly with regard to the knowability of the Forms, "recollection", the doctrine of the soul as a harmony, the problem of causes, and the so-called "second voyage"). This book will undoubtedly spark debate among scholars both in terms of the critical assessment of the theses it proposes and of the objections it raises against alternative interpretations"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Why Publish This Book? -- 2 Detailed Synopsis of the Book -- 2.1 Chapter 1, "Death" -- 2.2 Chapter 2, 'Suicide' -- 2.3 Chapter 3, "Virtue" -- 2.4 Chapter 4, 'The (True) Philosopher' -- 2.5 Chapter 5, "Recollection" -- 2.6 Chapter 6, "Harmony" -- 2.7 Chapter 7, "Causes" -- 2.8 Chapter 8, "Voyage(s)" -- 2.9 Chapter 9, "Life" -- 1 Death -- 1 Dogmatism, Scepticism, etc. -- 2 Plato's 'Third Way' -- 3 Philosophy or Religion? -- 4 Immortality -- 5 Between Science and Ignorance -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Suicide -- 1 Cebes' Amazement -- 2 The Argument -- 3 The Morality of Happiness -- 3 Virtue -- 1 The Philosopher and Virtue: A Digression? -- 2 A Contradiction between Phaedo and Republic? -- 3 Philosophy as Politics -- 4 Popular and Philosophical Virtue -- 5 The Philosopher according to Plato -- 6 The Political Relevance of Asceticism -- 7 Conclusion -- 4 The (True) Philosopher -- 1 Sokratismusstreit -- 2 The True Philosopher: The Identity between Theory and Practice -- 3 Antisthenes and the Use of Pleasures: From Xenophon's Symposium to Plato's Gorgias -- 4 Antisthenes in the Phaedo -- 5 Philosophy and the Use of λόγοι -- 6 The Philosopher's Life and Death -- 5 Recollection -- 1 Recollection as Proof of Immortality -- 2 Recollection as the Condition of Possibility of Knowledge -- 3 Problems Solved -- 4 Recollection as an Explanation for Human's Middle Condition -- 5 Meno 85c-d -- 6 Episteme and Doxa -- 6 Harmony -- 1 The Soul as Harmony: The Pythagorean Background -- 2 Socrates' Second Argument -- 3 Socrates' Third Argument -- 4 The Crucial Premise of the Third Argument -- 5 The Philosophical Significance of Socrates' Refutation -- 7 Causes -- 1 Methodological Problems -- 2 The Causes of Generation, Corruption, and Being -- 3 The Physical Causes: Socrates' Dissatisfaction -- 4 What Is the Problem?.

5 The Eleatic Background -- 6 Conclusion -- 8 Voyage(s) -- 1 The Deuteros Plous -- 2 What Is the "First Voyage?" -- 3 Images -- 4 The Logos "Hardest to Disprove" -- 5 The Deuteros Plous in Philebus -- 6 The Deuteros Plous in Statesman -- 7 Conclusion -- 9 Life -- 1 The 'Last Argument' -- 2 What Occupies What? -- 3 Immortal and Indestructible -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Editions and Translations of the Phaedo -- Other Works -- Index.