Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early AcademyCambridge University Press, 13 באפר׳ 2023 - 300 עמודים This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction. |
תוכן
I | 9 |
8 | 84 |
2 | 91 |
7 | 139 |
Plato on Divinity and Morality | 154 |
Cosmic Religion in the Early Academy | 207 |
Conclusions | 249 |
268 | |
283 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy <span dir=ltr>Vilius Bartninkas</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2023 |
Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy <span dir=ltr>Vilius Bartninkas</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2023 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Academics activity Aëtius anthropogony Apollo argues argument Aristotle assimilation astral astronomy Athena Athenian body citizens cosmic gods cosmogony cosmological discourse created Critias cult practice Demiurge Dionysus divine Early Academy eikōs elite Empedocles entities Epinomis ethical festivals framework function Gaia gives Helios Hephaestus Hesiod human idea ideal of godlikeness identity imitation intellectual kind kosmos Kronos later dialogues Laws Magnesian Metaph moral virtues motions myth names nature Nocturnal Council object Olympian ontological origins Orphic Ouranian Ouranos paradigm passage patron gods Phaedrus Philip Philip of Opus philosophical planets Plato Plato’s later political politogony Poseidon principles reading reason religious role Section Sedley self-control Socrates soul speech stars story Tarán theogony theological Timaeus traditional and cosmic traditional gods universe virtuous world-soul worship Xenocrates younger gods Zeus δὲ δὴ εἶναι ἐν θεῶν κατὰ μὲν οὖν περὶ πρὸς τὰ τὰς τε καὶ τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς