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Plato's Mythoi: Political Theory for Today

Autor Donald H. Roy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 oct 2018
Recently, in the past thirty years, there has been an upsurge in serious treatment of Platonic mythoi, which were once thought to be only literary decoration and/or the simplistic presentation of philosophic conclusions for the demos (dummies in effect). Nevertheless, the dominant tendency in the exegesis of Platonic mythoi still is to subordinate them to philosophic logos (reason) and not to recognize that such mythoi are philosophic in themselves in the broad sense of "the love of wisdom". There is something conversional about Plato's philosophic mythos, reformulating and superseding traditional Greek mythos and then charting the drama of the human soul from Socratic aporia, up and out of the cave, and into the beyond, the Idea of the Good. The late Professor Eric Voegelin understood this existential drama, and his exegesis of Platonic mythos, from engendering pathos to symbols, is revelatory to say the least. My understanding is that logos (reason) is a fundamental and necessary check on mythos, but logos and mythos are complementary via medias; neither are dispensable nor reducible, one to the other. Also crucial to my study of Platonic mythoi is the "analogy of being," that Voegelin only touches on, but Erich Przywara explores and develops. The relationship between the human and the divine is analogical (likenesses but also significant unlikenesses), and Plato certainly explored the play of opposites and affinities covering the difficult philosophical problems of becoming and being and the temporal and the eternal. Most philosophic commentators on Plato ignore the suffusive presence of the divine in Plato's love of wisdom. Perhaps only Platonic mythos at its best offers the philosophic imagination the vision of transcendence.
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ISBN-13: 9781498571579
ISBN-10: 1498571573
Pagini: 346
Dimensiuni: 159 x 231 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield
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Notă biografică

Donald H. Roy is professor emeritus at Ferris State University

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Metaphor and Analogy Chapter 2 Logos and Mythos in Platös Dialogues Chapter 3 The Integral Relationship and Circular Sequence of Platös Mythoi Chapter 4 The Mythoi Of Crisis, Conversion, And Descent/Ascent Chapter 5 The Mythoi Of Judgement And Return To Political/Cosmic Foundations Chapter 6 Epilogue: Mythoi In All Their Nobility/Glory: The Pathos Of Mythos

Descriere

The interpenetration of Plato's mythos and logos reveals an analogical, serious playfulness of the human soul from the depths of aporia (bewilderment) to the heights of the beyond (epikeina). We humans are caught in-between (metaxy) with all the dynamis (potentialities and resourcefulness) to rise and to fall.