This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues. Those exceptional elements of experience - love, city, philosopher - do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical ambition to intensify the concepts and experiences one normally thinks with. His investigations point beyond the fates of these particular exceptions to broader conclusions about Plato's world. Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher will be of interest to any readers of Plato, and of ancient philosophy more broadly.

Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

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Plato is one of the most important figures in Western thought; the Republic is his most important, and most widely studied, work. This GuideBook will steer the reader clearly through this work. Plato and the Republic will introduce and assess: * Plato's life and the background to the Republic * The text and ideas of the Republic * Plato's continuing importance to Western thought Ideal for students coming to Plato for the first time, this GuideBook will be vital for all students of Plato in philosophy, politics and classics at all levels.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

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Plato is one of the most important figures in Western thought. The Republic is his most important, and most widely studied, work. This GuideBook will steer the reader clearly through this work. Plato and the Republic will introduce and assess: * Plato's life and the background to the Republic * The text and ideas of the Republic * Plato's continuing importance to Western thought Ideal for students coming to Plato for the first time, this GuideBook will be vital for all students of Plato in philosophy, politics and classics at all levels.

Plato's Republic is perhaps the most significant and important work of philosophy and is Plato's most famous work. No other work has made such an impact on the history of Western thought. In this second edition of the highly successful Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas extends his exploration of the text to include substantial revisions and new material. In addition to the existing text, the chapters on Plato's ethics and politics have been revised and enlarged to include two brand new sections. There is further discussion of Plato on aesthetics including a section of Aristotle's criticism of Plato on beauty. Plato and the Republic, 2nd edition assesses and introduces: Plato's life and the background to the Republic; the text and the ideas of the Republic; Plato's continuing importance to Western thought. Ideal for students coming to Plato for the first time, this GuideBook will be vital for all students of Plato in philosophy, politics and classics at all levels.

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Plato's Republic is perhaps the most significant and important work of philosophy and is Plato's most famous work. No other work has made such an impact on the history of western thought. In this second edition of the highly successful Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas extends his exploration of the text to include substantial revisions and new material. In addition to the existing text, the chapters on Plato's ethics and politics have been revised and enlarged to include two brand new sections. There is further discussion of Plato on aesthetics including a section of Aristotle's criticism of Plato on beauty. Plato and the Republic, second edition assesses and introduces: Plato's life and the background to the Republic The text and ideas of the Republic Plato's continuing importance to Western thought Ideal for students coming to Plato for the first time, this GuideBook will be vital for all students of Plato in philosophy, politics and classics at all levels.

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)

Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic introduces the major themes in Plato’s great book and acts as a companion for reading the work, examining:   The context of Plato’s work and the background to his writing  Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact  The reception the book received when first seen by the world  The relevance of Plato’s work to modern philosophy, its legacy and influence. With further reading included throughout, this text follows Plato’s original work closely, making it essential reading for all students of philosophy, and all those wishing to get to grips with this classic work.

Plato, often cited as a founding father of Western philosophy, set out ideas in the Republic regarding the nature of justice, order, and the character of the just individual, that endure into the modern day. The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic introduces the major themes in Plato’s great book and acts as a companion for reading the work, examining: <ul>
<li>The context of Plato’s work and the background to his writing </li> <li>Each separate part of the text in relation to its goals, meanings and impact </li> <li>The reception the book received when first seen by the world </li> <li>The relevance of Plato’s work to modern philosophy, its legacy and influence.</li>
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With further reading included throughout, this text follows Plato’s original work closely, making it essential reading for all students of philosophy, and all those wishing to get to grips with this classic work.

The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes

The Nietzsche Disappointment examines the workings of time in Nietzsche's philosophy. It asks how he explains the great changes that (according to him) turned the past into the present ― catastrophic transformations of morality, language, human nature ― or that may yet make a desirable future out of this sorry present age.The question is essential. Nietzsche attacks morality by appeal to the past and future. Where philosophy had fancied itself eternal, imagining all times to be more or less like the present, Nietzsche sets the subject in motion with his attention to abrupt, utterly consequential events. Everything eternal becomes temporal.But after whetting his readers' appetites for past and future cataclysms, Nietzsche makes them seem impossible. Birth of Tragedy raises the question of where Socrates could have come from ― and then can't answer. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche pins his hopes on the birth of future philosophers, even as he shows how many obstacles prevent their being born. On the Genealogy of Morals posits occurrences, like the triumph of slave morality, that violate Nietzsche's own claims about what can happen.What stops Nietzsche from telling the very stories that he wanted philosophy to attend to? Perhaps that question can't be answered without considering how Nietzsche understands his own place in the flow of time ― considering, for instance, his wish to be an original philosopher.The Nietzsche Disappointment is both critical and sympathetic. It interrogates Nietzsche in terms that he should understand; it closes by asking whether there is some way of being critical that is also self-critical. For then a good reading may free the reader from Nietzsche's person while continuing to confront the challenge he bequeathed to philosophy.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Nietzsche Disappointment examines the workings of time in NietzscheOs philosophy. It asks how he explains the great changes that (according to him) turned the past into the present _ catastrophic transformations of morality, language, human nature _ or that may yet make a desirable future out of this sorry present age. The question is essential. Nietzsche attacks morality by appeal to the past and future. Where philosophy had fancied itself eternal, imagining all times to be more or less like the present, Nietzsche sets the subject in motion with his attention to abrupt, utterly consequential events. Everything eternal becomes temporal. But after whetting his readersO appetites for past and future cataclysms, Nietzsche makes them seem impossible. Birth of Tragedy raises the question of where Socrates could have come from _ and then canOt answer. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche pins his hopes on the birth of future philosophers, even as he shows how many obstacles prevent their being born. On the Genealogy of Morals posits occurrences, like the triumph of slave morality, that violate NietzscheOs own claims about what can happen. What stops Nietzsche from telling the very stories that he wanted philosophy to attend to? Perhaps that question canOt be answered without considering how Nietzsche understands his own place in the flow of time _ considering, for instance, his wish to be an original philosopher. The Nietzsche Disappointment is both critical and sympathetic. It interrogates Nietzsche in terms that he should understand; it closes by asking whether there is some way of being critical that is also self-critical. For then a good reading may free the reader from NietzscheOs person while continuing to confront the challenge he bequeathed to philosophy.

The Philosopher's New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion

This book takes a new approach to the question, "Is the philosopher to be seen as universal human being or as eccentric?". Through a reading of the Theaetetus, Pappas first considers how we identify philosophers – how do they appear, in particular how do they dress? The book moves to modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". He argues that aspects of the fashion/anti-fashion debate apply to antiquity, indeed that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy’s orientation toward a social world in which, for all its true existence elsewhere, philosophy also has to live.

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Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)

The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books)

The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes

The Nietzsche Disappointment: Reckoning with Nietzsche's Unkept Promises on Origins and Outcomes

The Philosopher's New Clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and Philosophy’s Turn against Fashion