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Human beings are restless souls ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be moreto be infinitely more Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity as in Spinozas notion of conatus and Hobbess identification of a perpetual and restless desire of power after power In this book Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for selfpreservation Coopers overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition vigorous virtue patriotism and philosophy but also of tyranny imperialism and varieties of fanaticism But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon either and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter
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Human beings are restless souls ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be moreto be infinitely more Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity as in Spinozas notion of conatus and Hobbess identification of a perpetual and restless desire of power after power In this book Laurence Cooper focuses his attention on three giants of the philosophic tradition for whom this inner force was a major preoccupation and something separate from and greater than the desire for selfpreservation Coopers overarching purpose is to illuminate the nature of this source of existential longing and discontent and its implications for political life He concentrates especially on what these thinkers share in their understanding of this psychic power and how they view it ambivalently as the root not only of ambition vigorous virtue patriotism and philosophy but also of tyranny imperialism and varieties of fanaticism But he is not neglectful of the differences among their interpretations of the phenomenon either and especially highlights these in the concluding chapter
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In recent years the field of cognitive psychology has begun to explore the rootedness of rational thinking in subrational inspiration insight or instincta kind of prediscursive hunch that leaps ahead and guides rational thought before the reasoning human being is even aware of it In The Music of Reason Michael Davis shows that this musical quality of thinking is something that leading philosophers have long been aware of and explored with great depth and subtlety Focusing on the work of three thinkers traditionally viewed as among the most poetic of philosophersRousseau Nietzsche and PlatoDavis reveals the complex and profound ways in which they each plumbed the depths of reasons prerational foundationsDavis first examines Rousseaus Essay on the Origins of Languages Where Something Is Said About Melody and Musical Imitation and Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music to demonstrate that revealing the truth or achieving individual enlightenment requires poetic techniques such as irony indirection and ambiguity How philosophers say things is as worthy of our attention as what they say Turning to Platos Lesser Hippias Davis then reconsiders the relation between truthtelling and lying finding the Platonic dialogue to be an artful synthesis of music and reasonThe ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry that Plato placed near the core of this thinking suggests a tension between the rational scientific and the nonrational poetic or between the true and the beautifulthe one clear and definite the other allusive and musical Contemplating language in Rousseau the Dionysian in Nietzsche and playfulness in Plato The Music of Reason explores how what we might initially perceive as irrational and so antithetical to reason is in fact constitutive of it
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This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros the love found in Greek thought and agape the love characteristic of Christianity Focusing on a number of classic texts including Platos Symposium and Lysis Aristotles Ethics and Metaphysics and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa Origen Dionysius the Areopagite Plotinus Augustine and Thomas Aquinas the author shows that Platos account of eros is not founded on selfinterest In this way she restores the place of erotic love as a Christian motif and unravels some longstanding confusions in philosophical discussions of love
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In recent years the field of cognitive psychology has begun to explore the rootedness of rational thinking in subrational inspiration insight or instincta kind of prediscursive hunch that leaps ahead and guides rational thought before the reasoning human being is even aware of it In The Music of Reason Michael Davis shows that this musical quality of thinking is something that leading philosophers have long been aware of and explored with great depth and subtlety Focusing on the work of three thinkers traditionally viewed as among the most poetic of philosophersRousseau Nietzsche and PlatoDavis reveals the complex and profound ways in which they each plumbed the depths of reasons prerational foundationsDavis first examines Rousseaus Essay on the Origins of Languages Where Something Is Said About Melody and Musical Imitation and Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music to demonstrate that revealing the truth or achieving individual enlightenment requires poetic techniques such as irony indirection and ambiguity How philosophers say things is as worthy of our attention as what they say Turning to Platos Lesser Hippias Davis then reconsiders the relation between truthtelling and lying finding the Platonic dialogue to be an artful synthesis of music and reasonThe ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry that Plato placed near the core of this thinking suggests a tension between the rational scientific and the nonrational poetic or between the true and the beautifulthe one clear and definite the other allusive and musical Contemplating language in Rousseau the Dionysian in Nietzsche and playfulness in Plato The Music of Reason explores how what we might initially perceive as irrational and so antithetical to reason is in fact constitutive of it
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After studying ancient Greek for a year students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatusIn welcome contrast this intermediatelevel textbook reinforces the firstyear lessons and enables students to read Platos Symposium one of the most engaging works in Attic Greek the dialect taught in most firstyear coursesTo meet the needs of students who are reading extended passages of challenging Greek for the first time Louise Pratt a classical scholar with more than twenty years teaching experience has lightly condensed the early readings supplementing them with review exercises and new vocabulary She includes the remaining portion of the dialogue in its entirety to give students the experience of reading Platos imaginative dialogue in all its richness All readings are glossed with explanatory notes appearing on the same page as the relevant textsEnlivened by twentyfive illustrations Eros at the Banquet also features an introduction explaining the Symposiums historical and philosophical significance a comprehensive glossary and an uptodate bibliography Instructors may also supplement this volume with Pratts The Essentials of Greek Grammar A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek which includes many examples from the Symposium
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After studying ancient Greek for a year students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatusIn welcome contrast this intermediatelevel textbook reinforces the firstyear lessons and enables students to read Platos Symposium one of the most engaging works in Attic Greek the dialect taught in most firstyear coursesTo meet the needs of students who are reading extended passages of challenging Greek for the first time Louise Pratt a classical scholar with more than twenty years teaching experience has lightly condensed the early readings supplementing them with review exercises and new vocabulary She includes the remaining portion of the dialogue in its entirety to give students the experience of reading Platos imaginative dialogue in all its richness All readings are glossed with explanatory notes appearing on the same page as the relevant textsEnlivened by twentyfive illustrations Eros at the Banquet also features an introduction explaining the Symposiums historical and philosophical significance a comprehensive glossary and an uptodate bibliography Instructors may also supplement this volume with Pratts The Essentials of Greek Grammar A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek which includes many examples from the Symposium
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The insights presented in the volume are many and wideranging recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire such as triangulation or loving what others love yet offering new solutions to old problems like the proper interpretation of Platos Phaedrus On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization the book offers a fresh view it was no accident that the poets who invented Eros were also the first readers and writers of the Western literate traditionOriginally published in 1986The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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The acclaimed series The Collected Writings of JeanJacques Rousseau concludes with a volume centering on Emile 1762 which Rousseau called his greatest and best book Here Rousseau enters into critical engagement with thinkers such as Locke and Plato giving his most comprehensive account of the relation between happiness and citizenship teachers and students and men and women In this volume Christopher Kelly presents Allan Blooms translation newly edited and crossreferenced to match the series The volume also contains the firstever translation of the first draft of Emile the Favre Manuscript and a new translation of Emile and Sophie or the Solitaries The Collected Writings of Rousseau Roger D Masters and Christopher Kelly series editors 1 Rousseau Judge of JeanJacques Dialogues 2 Discourse on the Sciences and Arts First Discourse and Polemics 3 Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Second Discourse Polemics and Political Economy 4 Social Contract Discourse on the Virtue Most Necessary for a Hero Political Fragments and Geneva Manuscript 5 The Confessions and Correspondence Including the Letters to Malesherbes 6 Julie or the New Heloise Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps 7 Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music 8 The Reveries of the Solitary Walker Botanical Writings and Letter to Franquières 9 Letter to Beaumont Letters Written from the Mountain 10 Letter to DAlembert and Writings for the Theater 11 The Plan for Perpetual Peace On the Government of Poland and Other Writings on History and Politics 12 Autobiographical Scientific Religious Moral and Literary Writings 13 Emile or On Education Includes Emile and Sophie or The Solitaries
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Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers Although the topic eros and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Platos preoccupation with the nature of the good life with virtue and how it is acquired and transmitted For Plato analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection this book explores Platos ethics of desire
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Contents I Eidos II Demon and Eros III Beyond Being IV The Academy V The Written Work VI Socrates in Plato VII Irony VIII Dialogue IX Myth X Intuition and Construction XI Alethcia XII Dialogue and Existence XIII Platos Letters XIV Plato as Physicist XV Plato as Geographer XVI Plato as Jurist XVII Plato as City Planner XVIII Socrates Enters Rome IndexOriginally published in 1970The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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