Why Plato Wrote. - ALLEN, Danielle S.,
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Unlike critics who deny that Plato 'says' anything in his dialogues, or who give authorial intent in general a wide berth, Danielle Allen in this wide-ranging study seeks to illuminate Plato?s meaning by answering the question, 'Why did Plato write anyway?' (p. 4). Her study focuses on the power of symbols to move the emotions and focus the understanding. According to her, Plato?s goal in writing was to use the power of images in language to promote political reform. This subsumed his other motives: writing 'to displace the poets (...). Plato wrote unacknowledged legislation,' aiming at a wide, educated readership, not only at a philosophical elite(p. 77). To test this conclusion, Allen traces the effects of Plato?s writing upon political institutions in Athens. When the same words and concepts occur in Plato and later in the fourth century BCE in Athenian political discourse, she concludes that they migrated from philosophy into politics as part of a 'culture war' that Plato ignited. No advocate of withdrawa...
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2010Uitgever: Wiley-Blackwell232 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1444334484ISBN-13: 9781444334487Koop dit boek tweedehands
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n.p., 2010. 232p. Cloth with dust wrps. Series: Blackwell Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: ALLEN, Danielle S.,] [Uitgever: Wiley-Blackwell] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Why Plato Wrote.]
