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...

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.