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Kevin Corrigan

A Less Familiar Plato

From Phaedo to Philebus

Kevin Corrigan

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English
Cambridge University Press
09 November 2023
Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical history & classical civilisation; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy of religion; Theology; History of ideas
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
In this book, Kevin Corrigan sheds light on aspects of Plato's thought that are less familiar to contemporary readers. He reveals a Plato who believes in Forms but is not essentialist, who develops a scientific view of perception in the middle and late dialogues, and who offers positive models of art and science. Corrigan shows how Plato articulates a broader view of intelligible reality in which embodiment is affirmative and the mind-soul-body continuum has an eidetic structure, and where even failure and the imperfect are included. He also demonstrates that Plato developed an ideal, yet finely layered view of love that provided a practical guide throughout antiquity; and that the dialogues and unwritten teachings can be understood in a mutually open-ended, non-antagonistic way. Corrigan's book provides a guide to Plato in an unexpected key and poses important questions regarding imagination, divine inspiration, and Forms and the Good, among other topics.
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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Weight:   619g
ISBN:   9781009324854
ISBN 10:   1009324853
Series:   Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
Pages:   350
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
I. Embodiment and Participation in the Divine: 1. The Phaedo: embodiment, disembodiment, and the question of 'self'; 2. The place and scope of participation in the divine in Plato and Aristotle; II. Introduction to the Republic and Philebus, Chapters 4-6: 3. The Training of perception: views of Art in the Republic and other works; 4. The non-hypothetical good: art, mind, imagination in the Republic; 5. Is the idea of the good beyond being?; 6. The Philebus-to Stand in the porches of the good and the dwelling of the such; III. Introduction to Love, Myth, Erotikē Technē, and Generative Epistēmē (Chapters 7-9): 7. Love and myth: Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus; 8. Desire, love, and friendship: a reading of the Lysis, Alcibiades I, Symposium, and Phaedrus; 9. The many questions of Plato's Phaedrus: did Plato write a commentary on his own work? 10. General conclusion; Appendix: scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues.

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His recent publications include Love, Friendship, Beauty and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the later tradition, 2018; Plotinus. Ennead VI 8, On the Free Will of the One, 2017 (with John D. Turner). A Text Worthy of Plotinus: The Correspondence of A. H. Armstrong, Paul Henry S. J., Hans-Rudolph Schwyzer, E. R. Dodds, Jean Trouillard, Jésus Igal, 1952–1989, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020 (with Suzanne Stern-Gillet and José Baracat); and Plotin. Plotin. Oeuvres complètes, Traités 30-33, Tome 2. Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 482. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021 (with Jean-Marc Narbonne, Lorenzo Ferroni, John D. Turner, Zeke Mazur, Simon Fortier).

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