"Provides a guide to Plato in an unexpected key with well-grounded views of Plato's works (particularly major middle to late dialogues). The reader meets important questions of perception, embodiment, mimetic art, imagination, divine inspiration, the Forms and the Good, beauty, myth and logos, and generative epistemic art"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. Embodiment and Participation in the Divine: 1. The Phaedo: embodiment, disembodiment, and the question of 'self'; 2. The place and scope of participation in the divine in Plato and Aristotle; II. Introduction to the Republic and Philebus, Chapters 4-6: 3. The Training of perception: views of Art in the Republic and other works; 4. The non-hypothetical good: art, mind, imagination in the Republic; 5. Is the idea of the good beyond being?; 6. The Philebus-to Stand in the porches of the good and the dwelling of the such; III. Introduction to Love, Myth, Erotik Techn , and Generative Epist m (Chapters 7-9): 7. Love and myth: Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus; 8. Desire, love, and friendship: a reading of the Lysis, Alcibiades I, Symposium, and Phaedrus; 9. The many questions of Plato's Phaedrus: did Plato write a commentary on his own work? 10. General conclusion; Appendix: scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues.
