William H. F. Altman

Ascent to the Beautiful (eBook, ePUB)

Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato's elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima's ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught-and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy's eternal curriculum-Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793615961
• Artikelnr.: 60395118

Autorenporträt

William H. F. Altman, an independent scholar now living in Brazil, is a retired public high school teacher with more than thirty years experience teaching history, Latin, and the humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Plato the Teacher and Reading Order
Introduction: Schleiermacher and Plato
1 Protagoras as Gateway
§1. Protagoras before Alcibiades
§2. Xenophon before Plato
§3. Taking the Measure of Protagoras
§4. Interpreting the Misinterpretation of Simonides
2 The Elementary Dialogues: the Alcibiades dyad and Lovers
§5. The ?? ???tte?? Fallacy
§6. The More Perfect Mirror
§7. Between Alcibiades and Lovers
3 Hippias Major: Between Protagoras and Symposium
§8. Reading Order and Authenticity
§9. Plato's pons asinorum
§10. Deceiving with the Double
4 The Musical Dialogues: Hippias Minor, Ion, and Menexenus
§11. Deception Defended?
§12. Inspired Interpretation?
§13. Rhetoric Rejected?
5 Symposium as t????
§14. Integrating Symposium
§15. History and Tragedy
§16. Alcestis, Codrus, and Achilles
§17. Catching Sight of the Sea
Epilogue: Imagining Plato's Academy
Bibliography
Index
Index locorum
Index verborum
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