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Informationen zum Autor By William H. F. Altman Klappentext In this book, William H. F. Altman considers the pedagogical connections behind the post-Republic dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus in the context of their Reading Order. Zusammenfassung In this book! William H. F. Altman considers the pedagogical connections behind the post-Republic dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus in the context of their Reading Order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Plato the Teacher and the post-Republic DialoguesIntroduction: The Guardians in Action1 Timaeus-Critias: "A Deceptive Cosmos of Words"1. Cicero and Taylor's Timaeus2. Plato's Parmenidean Pedagogy3. Demiurge, World Soul, and Receptacle4. The Missing Speech of the Absent Fourth5. Critias, Phaedrus, and the Theological-Political Problem2 Phaedrus as Fair Warning6. "Whither, forsooth, and Whence?"7. The Science of Deception8. Introducing Collection and Division9. The Three Speeches10. Rereading Phaedrus3 Parmenides as Preliminary Training 11. The Problem of the One and the Many12. Three Dianoetic Interventions13. Plato's Trinity and Young Socrates4 Philebus: "As if in Battle"14. The Restoration15. The Most Difficult Test: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿16. Philebus and Reading Order5 Beginning of the End: Cratylus and Theaetetus 17. False Assumptions and Midwifery18. The Theaetetus Digression as Crisis: Fight or Flight?19. Looking Forward and BackBibliography
