Plato's dialectic at play : argument, structure, and myth in the Symposium / Kevin Corrigan and Elena Glazov-Corrigan.

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Main Author: Corrigan, Kevin
Corporate Author: Hoopla digital
Other Authors: Corrigan, Elena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Apollodorus's Prologue: An Imitation of an Imitation
  • 1.1 The Historical Frame
  • 1.2 Apollodorus and Mimetic Narrative
  • 1.3 The Force of Hybris
  • 1.4 Malakos versus Manikos: Soft or Mad?
  • 1.5 Anachronisms?
  • 2. Aristodemus's Prologue: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Frame of Reference
  • 2.1 The Story
  • 2.2 Sufficiency and Beauty: Emerging Criteria for Judgment
  • 2.3 The Spatial Order?
  • 2.4 Mimetic versus Hubristic: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Narrative
  • 2.5 Sophistic Education in the Context of Other Dialogues: Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic
  • 2.6 Between Religious Observance and the Cycle of Opposites
  • 2.7 "The Father of the Discourse"
  • 3. The Order of the Speeches: Formulating the Problem
  • 3.1 Eros
  • 3.2 Encomium
  • 3.3 The Problem of the Significance of the Early Speeches
  • 4. From Character to Speech: The Early Speeches and Their Significance
  • 4.1 Phaedrus: The Ardent Apprentice, but Confused Mythologue
  • 4.2 Pausanias: The Sophistic Sociologue
  • 4.3 Hiccups and Eryximachus, the Homogenic Doctor-Scientist
  • 4.4 Aristophanes: The Poet as Educator
  • 4.4.1 Aristophanes' Speech and Socrates' Criticism of Mimetic Art in the Republic 70
  • 4.4.2 The Possibility of Anachronism and Plato's Vanishing Signature
  • 4.4.3 Aristophanes' Speech as a Parody of Philosophical Dialectic
  • 4.4.4 Aristophanes' Speech and Individual Identity
  • 4.4.5 Aristophanes' Hiccups Revisited
  • 4.5 Agathon: The Sophistic Theologue as the "Climax" of an Unselfcritical Tradition
  • 4.5.1 Advance over the Previous Speakers?
  • 4.5.2 Agathon as Theologue Without Need
  • 4.5.3 The Shadow of the "Good": Agathon's Portrait in the Context of the Republic
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5. Diotima-Socrates: Mythical Thought in the Making
  • 5.1 Introduction: The Problem
  • 5.2 The Elenchus of Agathon and the Question of Truth
  • 5.3 The Role of Diotima
  • 5.4 Eros-Daimôn
  • 5.5 Diotima and the Art of Mythmaking Revisited: The Birth of Eros
  • 5.6 Love: Relation or Substance?
  • 5.7 Rhetoric and Dialectic
  • 5.8 Criticism of Aristophanes and Agathon
  • 5.9 The Curious Case of Procreation in the Beautiful
  • 5.10 The Concluding Sections of the Lesser Mysteries
  • 5.11 Preliminary Conclusion
  • 6. The Greater Mysteries and the Structure of the Symposium So Far
  • 6.1 The Movement of Ascent: Structure
  • 6.2 The Movement of Ascent and the Earlier Speeches
  • 6.3 Immortality and God-Belovedness
  • 6.4 Overall Conclusion
  • 6.4.1 "Platonic Love": The View So Far
  • 7. Alcibiades and the Conclusion of the Symposium: The Test and Trial of Praise
  • 7.1 The Figure of Dionysus and the Face of Socrates
  • 7.2 The Role of Alcibiades
  • 7.3 The Test of Praise
  • 7.4 The Trial of Praise