La Philosophie De Platon Volume 4

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Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume.

La Philosophie de Platon, trop longtemps introuvable, est considérée comme l'un des ouvrages les plus profonds et les plus complets jamais consacrés au philosophe.

C'est à Victor Cousin (1792-1867) que l'on doit la première traduction française intégrale du corpus platonicien, publiée entre 1822 et 1840. Sont réunis ici les "Arguments philosophiques" dont il a accompagné les dialogues contenus dans les sept premiers volumes (sur treize) de la série et deux cours sur Platon professés à l'École Normale en 1835, restés jusqu'ici inédits. La traduction de Cousin a favorisé l'étude de Platon à un point jamais atteint jusque-là et maintenu depuis: c'est elle qui a donné à Platon la place qu'il tient encore dans l'enseignement et le débat philosophique français. Les commentaires dont Cousin a assorti sa traduction ne se ramènent pas à un pan oublié de l'histoire des études platoniciennes en France. On peut leur reconnaître le mérite d'avoir contribué à la constitution de la philosophie française.

A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways

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Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his study of Plato’s so-called “late dialogues” by showing that they include those that depict the trial and death of Socrates. According to Altman, it is not Order of Composition but Reading Order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and he shows why Plato’s decision to interpolate the notoriously “late” Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters. Altman explains this interpolation—and another, that places Laws between Crito and Phaedo—as part of an ongoing test Plato has created for his readers that puts “the Guardians on Trial.” If we don’t recognize that Socrates himself is the missing Philosopher that the Eleatic Stranger never actually describes—and also the antithesis of the Athenian Stranger, who leaves Athens in order to create laws for Crete—we pronounce ourselves too sophisticated to be Plato’s Guardians, and unworthy of the Socratic inheritance.