TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crotty,Kevin
TI  - The philosopher's song: the poets' influence on Plato 
T2  - Greek studies : interdisciplinary approaches
SN  - 978-0-7391-4406-0
U1  - 184 23E
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Lanham, Boulder, New York [etc.]
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Plato
KW  - Poetry
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 225-239; Preface -- Introduction -- Achilles' insight : poetic and moral consciousness in Homer -- Iliad 24 and achilles' insight -- Multiple causation and moral responsibility -- The poetics of justice : Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic -- Justice and violence -- Is tragedy inevitable? -- The quarrel between poetry and philosophy concerning justice -- Socrates' intellectual crisis : the Phaedo -- Philosophy and vengeance -- Philosophy and asceticism -- Socrates' intellectual crisis -- The philosopher's song -- Excursus to chapter 3 : myth in Plato -- The greatest charge against mimetic poetry -- The relation between spectators and the performance -- Mimetic poetry as narrative poetry -- Philosophy and narrative as different ways of "making sense" -- Mimetic poetry as "anti-form" -- Images and non-being -- Proliferating the tiers of existence -- How many forms are there? -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the Sophist -- Is falsehood possible? : the problem of being -- A new philosophical method -- The new centrality of language -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the possibility of false statements -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the fallibility of the division method -- The metaphysics of fallibility : any metaphysical approach has its deficits -- The statesman : the tragedy of politics and the shape of Plato's thought -- The grand myth -- A new issue for political philosophy -- The statesman and law -- The conflict within virtue -- The shape of Plato's thought -- Excursus to chapter 6 : the statesman as philosophical commentary on Sophocles' Antigone
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