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 Free Download Toward a New Interpretation of Plato By Giovanni Reale; John R. Catan; Richard Davies 1996 | 459 Pages | ISBN: 0813208548 | PDF | 25 MB Translated from the tenth edition and edited by John R. Catan and Richard DaviesSince the beginning of the nineteenth century, the paradigm that has been widely accepted for interpreting Plato has held that the dialogues are fully understandable on their own terms and that the entirety of Plato's doctrine can be found in his writings. This method of interpretation, which Giovanni Reale calls the "traditional paradigm," upheld the textual integrity and autonomy of the dialogues.For Reale, who notes that Plato put his greatest seriousness and commitment into oral teaching, this "traditional paradigm" no longer provides satisfactory explanations of the dialogues. He urges that it be replaced with a new interpretive paradigm, one that was first articulated by scholars at the Tübingen School of Platonic Studies. This new paradigm holds that Plato's written dialogues are not self- sufficient but need to be read together with their author'sUnwritten Doctrines, which were handed down in the oral tradition and attested to by Plato's disciples. According to this paradigm, we risk greatly misunderstanding Plato unless we employ both the direct tradition of his writings and the indirect tradition of theUnwritten Doctrinesto interpret his work.In the book, Reale sets out the history of Plato studies. He shows not only the way this new interpretation breaks with recent orthodoxy but also how it connects with the earliest understandings of Platonic metaphysics. Drawing on the frequently neglected or misunderstood reports about what Plato divulged to his immediate pupils, he illuminates many otherwise obscure passages of the dialogues; in turn, he uses hints found throughout the dialogues to make sense of testimonies that have often seemed to be unreliable. What emerges from the harmonization of Plato's written thought with his oral teachings is aTheory of Principles.In just seven years the book has gone through ten editions in Italy. It is the fruit of an ongoing research project, with centers in both Germany and Italy, that seeks to establish a philologically accurate and philosophically satisfying account of Plato. Though aimed at scholars and graduate students in philosophy,Toward a New Interpretation of Platowill be a reference book for anyone interested in the new direction in Plato studies.Giovanni Reale is director of the Center for Research in Metaphysics and professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He is the author of several studies on Plato and on Aristotle, translations of Plato's dialogues into Italian, and the five-volumeA History of Ancient Philosophy.----------------------------------------------"This work . . . rereads the writings of Plato in the light and perspective of the paradigm of the Tübingen School, but it does so on the basis of very precise principles of contemporary epistemology which render the undertaking soundly and convincingly scientific and highly, even fascinatingly readable, resolving with apparent ease and clarity . . . so much that was enigmatic in Plato." --Gregorianum  Free Download Christopher W Tindale, "Plato's Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician " English | ISBN: 1438495536 | 2023 | 330 pages | EPUB, PDF | 789 KB + 2 MB Christopher W. Tindale is Director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is the author of How We Argue: 30 Lessons in Persuasive Communication and The Anthropology of Argument: Cultural Foundations of Rhetoric and Reason, among other books.  Free Download Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch English | January 10, 2023 | ISBN: 0691229597 | 304 pages | MOBI | 0.67 Mb The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agenda ![Plato's Republic [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0307/df/3ab286026199a949b3b41876b0c18ddf.jpeg) Free Download Plato's Republic (Audiobook) English | April 01, 2016 | ASIN: B01CORRQHG | M4B@62 kbps | 11h 46m | 321.38 MB Author: Plato Narrator: Ray Childs  Free Download Plato's Theodicy: The Forgotten Fount by Viktor Ilievski English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004679294 | 225 Pages | True PDF | 15 MB  Free Download Gerd Van Riel, "Plato's Gods " English | ISBN: 0754607003 | 2013 | 146 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology according to Plato. Starting from an examination of Plato's views of religion and the relation between religion and morality, Gerd Van Riel investigates Plato's innovative ways of speaking about the gods. This theology displays a number of diverging tendencies - viewing the gods as perfect moral actors, as cosmological principles or as celestial bodies whilst remaining true to traditional anthropomorphic representations. Plato's views are shown to be unified by the emphasis on the goodness of the gods in both their cosmological and their moral functions. Van Riel shows that recent interpretations of Plato's theology are thoroughly metaphysical, starting from aristotelian patterns. A new reading of the basic texts leads to the conclusion that in Plato the gods aren't metaphysical principles but souls who transmit the metaphysical order to sensible reality. The metaphysical principles play the role of a fated order to which the gods have to comply. This book will be invaluable to readers interested in philosophical theology and intellectual history.  Free Download Paradigm, Logos, and Myth in Plato's Sophist and Statesman by Conor Barry English | 2022 | ISBN: 1793649030 | 328 Pages | True ePUB | 0.84 MB  Free Download Forrest Baird, "Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida Ed 7" English | ISBN: 1138719102 | 2023 | 929 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 39 MB  Free Download Glenn Ellmers, "The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy" English | ISBN: 164177343X | 2023 | 120 pages | PDF | 752 KB Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not merely moral and political, but philosophical, and even spiritual. We hardly seem to experience the same reality anymore, preferring to self-select into media perception chambers whose projections vary according to political persuasion.  Free Download Kevin Corrigan, "A Less Familiar Plato: From Phaedo to Philebus " English | ISBN: 1009324853 | 2023 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB In this book, Kevin Corrigan sheds light on aspects of Plato's thought that are less familiar to contemporary readers. He reveals a Plato who believes in Forms but is not essentialist, who develops a scientific view of perception in the middle and late dialogues, and who offers positive models of art and science. Corrigan shows how Plato articulates a broader view of intelligible reality in which embodiment is affirmative and the mind-soul-body continuum has an eidetic structure, and where even failure and the imperfect are included. He also demonstrates that Plato developed an ideal, yet finely layered view of love that provided a practical guide throughout antiquity; and that the dialogues and unwritten teachings can be understood in a mutually open-ended, non-antagonistic way. 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