The philosopher's song
Subtitle: the poets' influence on Plato
By: Kevin Crotty
Series: Greek studies; Greek studies
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780739144060; 9780739144084
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Achilles' insight : poetic and moral consciousness in Homer; title: Iliad 24 and achilles' insight; title: Multiple causation and moral responsibility; title: The poetics of justice : Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic; title: Justice and violence; title: Is tragedy inevitable?; title: The quarrel between poetry and philosophy concerning justice; title: Socrates' intellectual crisis : the Phaedo; title: Philosophy and vengeance; title: Philosophy and asceticism; title: Socrates' intellectual crisis; title: The philosopher's song; title: Excursus to chapter 3 : myth in Plato; title: The greatest charge against mimetic poetry; title: The relation between spectators and the performance; title: Mimetic poetry as narrative poetry; title: Philosophy and narrative as different ways of "making sense"; title: Mimetic poetry as "anti-form"; title: Images and non-being; title: Proliferating the tiers of existence; title: How many forms are there?; title: The metaphysics of fallibility : the Sophist; title: Is falsehood possible? : the problem of being; title: A new philosophical method; title: The new centrality of language; title: The metaphysics of fallibility : the possibility of false statements; title: The metaphysics of fallibility : the fallibility of the division method; title: The metaphysics of fallibility : any metaphysical approach has its deficits; title: The statesman : the tragedy of politics and the shape of Plato's thought; title: The grand myth; title: A new issue for political philosophy; title: The statesman and law; title: The conflict within virtue; title: The shape of Plato's thought; title: Excursus to chapter 6 : the statesman as philosophical commentary on Sophocles' Antigone.