Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_7
José Antonio Giménez
{"title":"J. K. Larsen, V. V. Haraldsen, and J. Vlasits (eds.), New Perspectives on Platonic Dialectic. A Philosophy of Inquiry, New York - London, Routledge 2022","authors":"José Antonio Giménez","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42344556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_1
Athanasia Giasoumi
{"title":"Myth, virtue and method in Plato’s Meno","authors":"Athanasia Giasoumi","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper challenges the prevailing interpretations about the role and the function of recollection in Plato’s Meno, by suggesting that recollection is a cognitive process inaugurated by a myth. This process sets out the methodological and epistemological context within two transitions are feasible: On the one hand, the methodological transition from the elenchus to the method of hypothesis and, on the other hand, the cognitive upshift from opinions to knowledge. Furthermore, this paper argues that Socrates uses the myth of recollection just when Meno niggles and tries to escape the inquiry, introducing the paradox. Based on my deductions, Socrates’ myth imprints on Meno’s soul a true belief which facilitates the process of recollection by rending Meno valiant in continuing the inquiry.","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_4
Christine Rojcewicz
{"title":"Socrates’ kατάβασις and the Sophistic Shades: Education and Democracy","authors":"Christine Rojcewicz","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_4","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the unusually elaborate dramatic context in Plato’s Protagoras and effect of sophistry on democratic Athens. Because Socrates evokes Odysseus’ κατάβασις in the Odyssey to describe the sophists in Callias’ house (314c-316b), I propose that Socrates depicts the sophists as bodiless shades residing in Hades. Like the shades dwelling in Hades with no connection to embodied humans on Earth, the sophists in the Protagoras are non-Athenians with no consideration for the democratic body of the Athenian πόλις. I conclude that sophistry can be detrimental to Athenian democracy because it can produce education inequality founded on wealth inequality.","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48830879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_6
Gabriele Flamigni
{"title":"F. Benoni; A. Stavru (eds.) (2021). Platone e il governo delle passioni. Studi per Linda Napolitano. Perugia, Aguaplano","authors":"Gabriele Flamigni","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44060487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_5
Laura Candiotto
{"title":"Mason Marshall, Reading Plato’s Dialogues to Enhance Learning and Inquiry: Exploring Socrates’ Use of Protreptic for Student Engagement. New York: Routledge","authors":"Laura Candiotto","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43507803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_10
A. Motta
{"title":"Franco Trabattoni, Eros antico. Un percorso filosofico e letterario, Carocci, Roma 2021 [pp. 154]","authors":"A. Motta","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44290245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_2
Marko Vitas
{"title":"Hesiodic Influence on Plato's Myth of the Cicadas","authors":"Marko Vitas","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that Hesiod's Myth of the Golden Race (Op. 109-126) influenced Plato's Myth of the Cicadas from the Phaedrus (258e-259d). Among other parallels, Hesiod's Golden Race and Plato's Cicadas have a similar diet and a similar rapport with the gods, they die in a similar way and enjoy similar benefits after death. The paper further argues that Plato used the inherent ambiguity of the Golden Age myths to draw attention to the ambiguity of the Cicadas themselves, who bring both benefits and rewards to humans, depending on their behavior. ","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45869015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_9
I-Kai Jeng
{"title":"Marren, Marina. Plato and Aristophanes. Comedy, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Just Life. Northwestern University Press, 2022. 136pp. $99.95 (hbk), ISBN 0810144190","authors":"I-Kai Jeng","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47254137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plato JournalPub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.14195/2183-4105_24_3
Richard D. Parry
{"title":"Choosing and Desire in Plato's Republic 4","authors":"Richard D. Parry","doi":"10.14195/2183-4105_24_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14195/2183-4105_24_3","url":null,"abstract":"Donald Davidson’s causal theory of action greatly influenced a dominant analytic interpretation of the argument, in Republic 4, for parts of the soul. According to Davidson, actions are caused by a combination of belief and desire (pro-attitude). In the interpretation inspired by this account, parts of the soul have distinctive beliefs and desires, which cause action; thus, parts are distinct agents. As well, the argument in Republic 4 is taken to show that, while reason desires the good, appetite is a desire which is good-independent. Then, since appetite is not a desire for the good, its being a distinct agent implies the possibility of akrasia—appetite could overcome reason’s judgment about the better course of action. In fact, the possibility of akratic conflict is taken to be integral to the distinction among parts. By contrast, this paper offers an interpretation which shows that the causal theory is not needed to establish the parts of the soul. As a consequence, akrasia has no role to play in distinguishing parts of the soul.","PeriodicalId":53756,"journal":{"name":"Plato Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42616511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}