This book is a study of Plato's portraiture of Socrates and of his βίος φιλοσοφικός and of the cultural semantics that underlie it. It focuses on the introductory part of this particular dialogue (57a-61c), with particular emphasis on the repeated references to Aesop and on Socrates' reported [...]
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This volume presents the English translation of a selection of 15 essays out of the 82 comprised in the seven-volume commentary on Plato's Republic, edited by Mario Vegetti and published by Bibliopolis (Naples).
1. Thrasymachus (M. Vegetti, Univ. di Pavia)
2. Poetry: paideia and mimesis (S. [...]
Diese Arbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die späte platonische Ethik aus dem Philebos zu rekonstruieren, indem eine besondere Beziehung von theoretischen und praktischen Fragen entwickelt wird.
Im Philebos fallen zwei Problemen zusammen, deren Entwicklung in den unterschiedlichen Perioden des [...]
The Phaedrus is widely used as a text on which to try out new lines of interpretation. Hence the choice of this dialogue as sole topic of the 'Second Symposium Platonicum'.
Discussions at the Symposium led to the exploration and evaluation of various ways of interpreting the dialogue, both [...]
