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Socrates Request and the Educational Narrative of the Timaeus

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This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus's cosmology to Socrates' request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue's concern for education apropos of the medical dimensions of Timaeus' physics, the project of becoming like god, and the philosophical soul responsible for success on the battlefield.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Socrates' Request: Encomium, Education, and War
2. The Educational Program of the Timaeus in Outline: Medicine, Cause, and the Tripartite Structure of Timaeus' Speech
3. Framing the Educational Narrative: Becoming Like God in Two Tasks
4. Motivating Education: Incarnation and Becoming Emphron
5. The Intellectual for the Sake of the Psycho-Political: Applied Mathematics, Force, and the Two Senses of Philosophia
6. Epilogue: Philosophy and the Warrior


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Charles Ives

Summary

This book addresses the relevance of Timaeus’s cosmology to Socrates’ request for a speech about war. Charles Ives finds relevance in the dialogue’s concern for education apropos of the medical dimensions of Timaeus’ physics, the project of becoming like god, and the philosophical soul responsible for success on the battlefield.

Product details

Authors Charles Ives, Ives Charles
Publisher Lexington Books
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.06.2017
 
EAN 9781498528504
ISBN 978-1-4985-2850-4
No. of pages 128
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, ancient philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

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