A History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle (Google eBook)

Giovanni Reale

SUNY Press, Aug 1, 1990 - Philosophy - 437 pages

Contents

• The Mediation Attempted by Plato between the Written and the Oral and the Structural Relationship between the Written and the Unwritten: 7
• The Important Problems that Have Beset the Interpretation of Plato and Their Most Plausible Solution in the Light of the New Research: 23
• The Second Voyage as a Journey from the Physical Inquiries of the Presocratics to the Metaphysical Level: 37
• The Platonic Theory of Ideas and Some Problems Connected to It: 47
• The Unwritten Doctrines of the First Principles and the Highest and Most Important Metaphysical Concepts Connected to Them: 65
• The Metaphysics of the Ideas in the Light of the Protologic of the Unwritten Doctrine and Allusions That Plato Makes to the Doctrine of the Principles: 77
• The Doctrine of the Demiurge and Cosmology: 95
• Epistemology and Dialectic: 117
• The Conception of Art and Rhetoric: 131
• Relevance of the MysticalReligiousAscetic Component of Platonism: 139
• The Immortality of the Soul Its Ultraterrestrial Destiny and Its Reincarnation: 141
• The New Moral Asoetic: 157
• The Mysticism of Philia and Eros: 169
• Plato a Prophet?: 175
• The EthicalReligious Component of Platonic Thought and its Relationship with the Protologic of the Unwritten Doctrines: 177
• The Importance and Significance of the Political Component of Platonism: 185
• The Republic or the Construction of the Ideal CityState: 189
• The Man of the State Written Laws and Constitution: 215
• The Second State of the Laws: 221
• The Political Component of Platonic Thought and Its Relationship with the Protologic of the Unwritten Doctrines: 225
• The Myth of the Cave as a Symbol of Platonic Thought in All Its Fundamental Valences: 231
• Some Summits of the Thought of Plato Remain: 237
• A Critical Premise The HistoricalGenetic Method and the Modern Interpretation of Aristotelian Thought: 249
• The Basic Points of Contact between Plato and Aristotle The Truthfulness of the Second Voyage: 253
• The Basic Differences between Aristotle and Plato: 259
• Metaphysics: 265
• Physics: 293
• Psychology: 303
• Mathematics: 313
• Ethics: 317
• Politics: 337
• The Foundation of Logic: 351
• Rhetoric: 367
• Poetics: 377
• The Destiny of Aristotelian Philosophy: 385
• The Achievements and Aporias of Aristotelian Philosophy: 387
• Notes: 393

Bibliographic information

• Title: A History of Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle; Volume 2 of A History of Ancient Philosophy : Plato and Aristotle, Giovanni Reale; Volume 2 of A History of Ancient Philosophy, John R. Catan; G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; Volume 2 of Plato and Aristotle, Giovanni Reale; Volume 2 of Storia della filosofia antica, Giovanni Reale; Suny Series in Philosophy; Suny Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning
• Author: Giovanni Reale
• Editor: John R. Catan
• Translated by: John R. Catan
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1990
• ISBN: 1438416997, 9781438416991
• Length: 437 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical