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Words and Ideas
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
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Description for Words and Ideas
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Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, as well as on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory. "Words and Ideas" offers a study of Plato's philosophical language against this cultural background, retracing to their origins the history and development of the key terms of the Theory of Forms as presented in the phaedo. 'Form' or 'idea', 'essence' or 'being', 'participation', 'presence' and 'community' are among the terms investigated. The aim is to determine the precise historical and ... Read more
Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, as well as on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory. "Words and Ideas" offers a study of Plato's philosophical language against this cultural background, retracing to their origins the history and development of the key terms of the Theory of Forms as presented in the phaedo. 'Form' or 'idea', 'essence' or 'being', 'participation', 'presence' and 'community' are among the terms investigated. The aim is to determine the precise historical and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905125203
SKU
V9781905125203
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About Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wales Swansea. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on PlatoAes language and thought, and editor of New Essays on Plato (Classical Press of Wales, 2006). He is currently co-editing, with Terry Penner and Douglas Cairns, Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in PlatoAes ... Read more
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