Die Schwierigkeiten bei der Interpretation von Platon beruhen auf einem Missverständnis seiner Schreibtechnik. Um sie zu überwinden, konzentriert sich diese Studie auf seine Technik, die auf einem mühsamen Spiel beruht, mit dem er die Leser:innen auffordert, auf seine Provokationen und seinen [...]

Dieses Buch versammelt acht umfangreiche Beiträge, welche bisher nie in englischer Sprache publiziert worden sind und sehr originelle Analysen der unterschiedlichen Elemente platonischen Denkens bieten, beginnend mit den von Platon ‚erfundenen‘ Schreibtechniken. Die Dialoge Phaidros und Politikos [...]

This book concerns the soul/body problem in Plato and Aristotle. Established as well as early career scholars actually working on Plato and Aristotle explore - under different points of view as well as through original readings and interpretations - the manifold dimensions involved in the conception [...]

There is a substantial difference between our way of 'philosophizing', born out of Descartes' clear and well-defined thinking and bent on building alternative (aut-aut) models, and the classical (especially Platonic-Aristotelian) way where a constant use of technical and methodical pluralism serves [...]

The title of this volume alludes to Phaedrus 255d, where Socrates says that the lover is, as it were, the mirror in which the beloved beholds himself. Mirrors provide a chance to overcome some of the natural limitations of vision - and in particular they enable us to see that which otherwise would [...]

Euthydemus was for a long time and until quite recently a neglected dialogue of Plato, almost by common accord treated as a motley collection of barely disguised sophistic fallacies. This book shows not only that the dialogue is to be taken seriously, but also that it is, in fact, a very important [...]

The concept of the soul, one of the greatest 'inventions' of Greek philosophy, which crossed the whole history of the Western civilisation, was defined in its fundamental philosophical features by Plato. Developing the numerous issues naturally linked to this concept, Plato's thought does not only [...]