Philosophy and Religion in Plato''s Dialogues

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Forms, the Good, and the Divine; 2. Eternal Longings; 3. Dialogue of Self and Soul; 4. Wings of Desire; 5. The Gods Made Visible; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Andrea Nightingale is a Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She has authored Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge, 1995), Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context (Cambridge, 2004), and Once out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body (2011).

Summary

Challenges the dominant idea that Plato is a secular thinker and shows how he uses specific aspects of Greek religion in his philosophy, especially the epiphanies of gods to humans, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Orphic mysteries.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Nightingale, Andrea (Stanford University Nightingale, Nightingale Andrea
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108837309
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83730-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500