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Ascent to the Beautiful

William H F Altman

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  • 618 sidor
  • 2020
With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. Although published last, this book covers Platos elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium en route to Diotimas ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taughtand bequeathed to posterity as his Academys eternal curriculumAscent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
  • Författare: William H F Altman
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781793615954
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 618
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-10-21
  • Förlag: Lexington Books