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  1. Der Dämon und die Masse. Kritik und Verteidigung politischer Mythen bei Hans Blumenberg.Maximilian Runge - 2016
    In his recently published posthumous works "Prefiguration" and "The Rigorism of Truth" Hans Blumenberg surprisingly steps into the area of political history that he had left widely unconsidered in "Work on Myth". While "Prefiguration" tackles the “demonic” aspects of Napoleon and Hitler that Blumenberg tries to dismantle and bring into derision, in "Rigorism of Truth" he attacks Hannah Arendt's phrase of the Banality of Evil in relation to the Jerusalem trial against Adolf Eichmann in 1961. In this latter issue Blumenberg (...)
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  2. Divine Agency and Politics in Plato’s Myth of Atlantis.George Harvey - forthcoming - Apeiron.
    This paper approaches the Critias straightforwardly as a work of political philosophy but gives greater attention to Athens’ opponent, Atlantis, whose founding, political organization, and eventual decline each offer important lessons about the aims of legislation and political life. I begin by comparing the foundation of the two cities as presented in Critias’ myth, with a special focus on the role of divine persuasion (I). I then describe the political organization of Athens and Atlantis, showing how they reflect the different (...)
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  3. Myths of Education. I n.Robert Paul Wolff - forthcoming - Philosophy Now: An Introductory Reader. Paula R. And War, and Citizenship. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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  4. Sakın Efsane Söyleme.Gökdemir İhsan - 2023 - HECE (Mitoloji Özel Sayısı):601-606.
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  5. Self-knowledge, Eros and Recollection in Plato's "Phaedrus".Athanasia Giasoumi - 2022 - Plato Journal 23:23-35.
    At the beginning of the "Phaedrus", Socrates distinguishes between two kinds of people: those who are more complex, violent and hybristic than the monster Typhon, and those who are simpler, calmer and tamer (230a). I argue that there are also two distinct types of Eros (Love) that correlate to Socrates’s two kinds of people. In the first case, lovers cannot attain recollection because their souls are disordered in the absence of self-knowledge. For the latter, the self-knowledge of self-disciplined lovers renders (...)
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  6. Platonische Mythen - Was sie sind und was sie nicht sind - Von A wie Atlantis bis Z wie Zamolxis.Thorwald C. Franke - 2021 - Norderstedt, Deutschland: Books on Demand.
    Platonische Mythen sind ein seltsames Thema, über das der Leser vielleicht hie und da schon einmal gestolpert sein mag. Seltsam deshalb, weil Platon eigentlich als Begründer des rationalen, philosophischen Denkens gilt. Warum gibt es dann Mythen bei Platon? Seltsam auch deshalb, weil das Thema immer nur am Rande auftaucht und offenbar gemieden wird. Was verbirgt sich hier? Und seltsam auch deshalb, weil diese Platonischen Mythen irgendwie anders sind als die bekannten Mythen der griechischen Mythologie. - Was also sind Platonische Mythen (...)
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  7. A Philosophical Defense of Myth: Josef Pieper’s Reading of Platonic Eschatology.Edvard Lorkovic - 2021 - Heythrop Journal 62 (2):257-269.
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  8. The Myth of Cronus in Plato’s Statesman: Cosmic Rotation and Earthly Correspondence.Corinne Gartner & Claudia Yau - 2020 - Apeiron 53 (4):437-462.
    The cosmological myth in Plato’s Statesman has generated several longstanding scholarly disputes, among them a controversy concerning the number and nature of the cosmic rotation cycles that it depicts. According to the standard interpretation, there are two cycles of rotation: west-to-east rotation occurs during the age of Cronus, and east-to-west rotation occurs during the age of Zeus, which is also our present era. Recent readings have challenged this two-cycle interpretation, arguing that the period of rotation opposed to our own is (...)
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  9. Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought.Tae-Yeoun Keum - 2020 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
    Plato's penchant for mythmaking sits uneasily beside his reputation as the inventor of rationalist philosophy. Hegel's solution was to ignore the myths. Popper thought them disqualifying. Tae-Yeoun Keum responds by carving out a place for myth in the context of rationalism and shows how Plato's tales inspired history's great political thinkers.
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  10. Plato's Myth of Er and the Reconfiguration of Nature.Tae-Yeoun Keum - 2020 - American Political Science Review 114 (1):54 - 67.
    Why did Plato conclude the Republic, arguably his most celebrated work of political theory, with the Myth of Er, an obscure story of indeterminate political-theoretical significance? This paper advances a novel reading of the Myth of Er that attends to the common plot that it shares with two earlier narrative interludes in the Republic. It suggests that Plato constructed the myth as an account of a search, akin to the sorting of potential philosopher-kings that underwrites the kallipolis’ educational curriculum, for (...)
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  11. The State of Example: Sovereignty and Bare Speech in Plato's Laws.Robert S. Leib - 2020 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 34 (3):407-423.
    In Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer project, he gives an archaeology of Western political power from ancient Rome up through Carl Schmitt's model of "exceptional sovereignty," where the sovereign is "he who decides on the exception."1 Agamben takes Schmitt's thesis further, arguing that, in modern biopolitics, the "sovereign is he who decides on the value or the nonvalue of life as such," and therefore, on life and death in the state.2 Although this model also appears in Foucault's work, Penelope Deutscher argues (...)
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  12. Μύθος και διαλεκτική στον Πλάτωνα: Μια ανίχνευση της λειτουργίας του μύθου ως μέρους της πλατωνικής μεθόδου.Athanasia Giasoumi - 2019 - Dissertation, University of Patras
    Η παρούσα διατριβή πραγματεύεται τη σχέση που συνδέει την μυθική σύνθεση και την διαλεκτική μέθοδο στο πλατωνικό έργο. Οι περισσότεροι μελετητές, βασιζόμενοι στις ποιητικές κριτικές του Πλάτωνος στην Πολιτεία, υποστηρίζουν ότι ο φιλόσοφος εξορίζει την ποίηση και την τέχνη εν γένει, από την ιδανική πολιτεία του, και, κατά συνέπεια, δεν θα έπρεπε ο ίδιος να συνθέτει και να χρησιμοποιεί μύθους. Ενάντια σε αυτή τη θεώρηση, επιχειρώ να δείξω, αφενός, ότι ο Πλάτων διακρίνει δύο είδη ποιήσεως· το ένα το υιοθετεί, το (...)
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  13. Cosmic Democracy or Cosmic Monarchy? Empedocles in Plato’s Statesman.Cameron F. Coates - 2018 - Polis 35 (2):418-446.
    Plato’s references to Empedocles in the myth of the Statesman perform a crucial role in the overarching political argument of the dialogue. Empedocles conceives of the cosmos as structured like a democracy, where the constituent powers ‘rule in turn’, sharing the offices of rulership equally via a cyclical exchange of power. In a complex act of philosophical appropriation, Plato takes up Empedocles’ cosmic cycles of rule in order to ‘correct’ them: instead of a democracy in which rule is shared cyclically (...)
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  14. The Atlantis Story in Plato. C. Gill Plato's Atlantis Story. Text, Translation and Commentary. Pp. X + 222, ills. Liverpool: Liverpool university press, 2017. Paper, £19.95 . Isbn: 978-1-78694-015-5. [REVIEW]Lloyd P. Gerson - 2018 - The Classical Review 68 (1):37-38.
  15. Silence of the Idols: Appropriating the Myth of Sisyphus for Posthumanist Discourses.Steven Umbrello & Jessica Lombard - 2018 - Postmodern Openings 9 (4):98-121.
    Both current and past analyses and critiques of transhumanist and posthumanist theories have had a propensity to cite the Greek myth of Prometheus as a paradigmatic figure. Although stark differences exist amongst the token forms of posthumanist theories and transhumanism, both theoretical domains claim promethean theory as their own. There are numerous definitions of those two concepts: therefore, this article focuses on posthumanism thought. By first analyzing the appropriation of the myth in posthumanism, we show how the myth fails to (...)
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  16. Plato’s Atlantis Story. Text, Translation and Commentary (2nd edition).Christopher Gill - 2017 - Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
    This book aims to bring together all the evidence relevant for understanding Plato's Atlantis Story, providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic texts (the start of Plato's Timaeus and the incomplete Critias), together with a commentary on language and content, and a full vocabulary of Greek words. This essential work also offers a new translation of these texts and a full introduction. The book has two special objectives. The introduction offers a full-scale interpretative reading of the Atlantis story, focused (...)
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  17. Lot-casting, Divine Interference and Chance in the Myth of Er.Viktor Ilievski - 2017 - Apeiron 50 (1):67-79.
    Journal Name: Apeiron Issue: Ahead of print.
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  18. Socrates’ Mythological Role in Plato’s Theaetetus.Yip-Mei Loh - 2017 - International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 11 (2):343-346.
    Plato, as a poet, employs muthos extensively to express his philosophical dialectical development, so the majority of his dialogues are comprised of muthoi. We cannot separate his muthos from his philosophical thought, since the former has great influence in the latter. So the methodology of this paper is first to discuss the dialogue "Theaetetus" to find out why he compares Socrates to the Greek goddess Artemis; then his concept of Maieutikē will be investigated. At the beginning of Plato’s "Theaetetus", Socrates (...)
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  19. On the Inauthenticity of the Critias.Marwan Rashed & Thomas Auffret - 2017 - Phronesis 62 (3):237-254.
    In this paper, we highlight a number of difficulties concerning the relationship between the Critias and theT imaeus, notably a contradiction between Timaeus 27a-b and Critias 108a-c. On this basis we argue that the Critias must be considered spurious.
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  20. Platons Mythen.Karl Reinhardt - 2017 - Verlag Vittorio Klostermann.
    Karl Reinhardt, einer der wichtigsten Altphilologen des 20. Jahrhunderts, hat sich in seinen Untersuchungen uber Platons Mythen, die 1927 erschienen und zuletzt 1969 in einem Sammelband neu aufgelegt wurden, mit diesen ratselhaften Passagen aus Platons Dialogen beschaftigt. Mit seiner grundlegend neuen Deutung des Verhaltnisses des Mythischen und Rationalen bei Platon hat Reinhardt ein neues Kapitel der Platon-Interpretation aufgeschlagen. Seine Auslegung des Mythos als poetischer Selbstentfaltung des Logos hat von ihrer Aktualitat nichts verloren und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag auch zur Mythos-Forschung (...)
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  21. Argumentative Strategies for Interpreting Plato’s Cosmogony: Taurus and the Issue of Literalism in Antiquity.Federico M. Petrucci - 2016 - Phronesis 61 (1):43-59.
    _ Source: _Volume 61, Issue 1, pp 43 - 59 Contemporary debate on Plato’s cosmogony often assumes that the ‘literal’ reading of the _Timaeus_ yields an account of creation, while the view that the cosmos always existed is non-literal. In antiquity, Taurus has been seen as a forerunner of the ‘non-literal’ interpretation. This paper shows, on the contrary, that Taurus’ argument for the sempiternity of the cosmos is a literalist one, relying on a strict linguistic analysis of _Timaeus_ 28b6-8.
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  22. Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration, revised and corrected second edition.Robert Zaslavsky - 2016 - CreateSpace.
    Dr. Zaslavsky’s Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration addresses the thorny issue of precisely what is meant by mythos (myth) in the Platonic corpus of dialogues. Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic (...)
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  23. Plato as City Planner: The Ideal city of Atlantis.Paul Friedlander - 2015 - In Plato: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. pp. 314-322.
  24. The Myth of Plato’s Socratic Period.Lloyd Gerson - 2014 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 96 (4):403-430.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 96 Heft: 4 Seiten: 403-430.
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  25. Origins Shrouded in Myth.Raam Gokhale - 2014 - Philosophy Pathways 184 (1).
    A Dialogue Exploring the Philosophical Roles of Myths The following is a dialogue in the Platonic style set in Pune, India 2012. The participants are Raam Gokhale (Ram) who is an MPhil in philosophy, Sushama Karve who is a professor of philosophy at Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapith, a university in Pune and Kedar Joshi who is an MA in philosophy.
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  26. Mythological Mathematics: Plato’s Timaeus.Alexandre Losev - 2014 - Philosophical Alternatives 1 (6):141-147.
    Reading the Timaeus as an early attempt at mathematizing natural science runs into serious difficulties. The so-called Platonic Solids are five in number, more by one than the traditional 'elements'. Plato provides a proportional ratio for these elements but this ratio fails to tie in with their geometrical features. Appealing to the authority of mathematics appears to be a rhetorical move with no further consequences.
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  27. Does the Soul's sleep generate the Reason? The symbol's compensatory aspect at quantum-psychoid matrix with regard to the Reason's unilateralism. Excerpt by.Donato Santarcangelo - 2014 - Milano MI, Italia: By: T. Cantalupi, D. Santarcangelo, Psiche e Realtà - Tecniche Nuove.
    A Symbol doesn't explain, says Jung. In fact it is beyond the dichotomy of the binary logic, that wants the limiting and restrictive diktat of the tertium non datur to be perpetuated so as to be obliged to choose between two possibilities being anyway on the same nomological axis.
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  28. MYTH IN PLATO - Collobert, Destrée, Gonzalez Plato and Myth. Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Pp. xii + 476. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. Cased, €162, US$222. ISBN: 978-90-04-21866-6. [REVIEW]David M. Timmerman - 2014 - The Classical Review 64 (2):391-392.
  29. White, David A. 2007. Myth, Metaphysics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman. Hampshire: Ashgate (282 pages, ISBN 978-0-7546-5779-8; $ 124.95, £ 23.75, 72,99 (hardback)). [REVIEW]Audrey L. Anton - 2013 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 16 (1):375-380.
  30. The Myths of the Three Glauci.Marie-Claire Beaulieu - 2013 - Hermes 141 (2):121-141.
    The myths of three famous Glauci - (1) Glaucus of Anthedon, (2) Glaucus of Potniae, and (3) Glaucus the son of Minos - whose story patterns mirror one another in some remarkable details have long suggested a common origin as the likely solution to their points of coincidence. In particular, scholars have focused on such similarities as the presence of a magic plant, death/initiation, and acquisition of prophetic powers. However, the elements common to each of these myths are not functional (...)
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  31. Truth and Story in the Timaeus-Critias.Sarah Broadie - 2013 - In G. Boys-Stones, C. Gill & D. El-Murr (eds.), The Platonic Art of philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
  32. The Myth of FitzGerald-Lorentz Length Contraction and the Reality of Einstein's Velocity Transformation.Robert J. Buenker - 2013 - Apeiron: Studies in Infinite Nature 20 (1):27.
  33. Literary Form and Philosophical Discourse: The Problem of Myth in the Platonic Dialogues.Alessandra Fussi - 2013 - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 7 (2):221-228.
    A DISCUSSION OF: CATHERINE COLLOBERT, PIERRE DESTRÉE, FRANCISCO J. GONZALEZ , PLATO AND MYTH: STUDIES ON THE USE AND STATUS OF PLATONIC MYTHS. MNEMOSYNE. SUPPLEMENTS, 337. LEIDEN/BOSTON: BRILL, 2012. PP. VIII + 476. ISBN 9789004218666. $222.00.
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  34. Resisting the myths: dodging the bullets.Jayne Sheridan - 2013 - In Peter Bennett & Julian McDougall (eds.), Barthes’ "Mythologies" Today Readings of Contemporary Culture. pp. 122-125.
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  35. Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Edited by Catherine Collobert , Pierre Destrée and Francisco J. Gonzalez . Pp. xi, 476, Leiden: Brill, 2012, €162 /$222. [REVIEW]Robin Waterfield - 2013 - Heythrop Journal 54 (6):1022-1023.
  36. Plato and Hesiod. Edited by G.R. Boys-Stones and J.H. Haubold. [REVIEW]E. F. Beall - 2012 - Ancient Philosophy 32 (2):420-429.
  37. The ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets - (R.G.) Edmonds III (ed.) The ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets and Greek Religion. Further along the Path. Pp. x + 385. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Cased, £60, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-521-51831-4. [REVIEW]Hugh Bowden - 2012 - The Classical Review 62 (2):374-376.
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  38. Why is the Timaeus called an Eikôs Muthos and an Eikôs Logos?Luc Brisson - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
  39. The pragmatics of "Myth" in Plato's Dialogues: the story of Prometheus in the Protagoras.Claude Calame - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  40. The Platonic art of myth-making: myth as informative Phantasma.Catherine Collobert - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  41. Plato and myth: studies on the use and status of Platonic myths.Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.) - 2012 - Boston: Brill.
    Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and ...
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  42. Spectacles from Hades. On Plato's myths and allegories in the Republic.Pierre Destrée - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  43. Myth and interpretation.Monique Dixsaut - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
  44. The Delphic oracle on Socrates' wisdom: a myth?Louis-André Dorion - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  45. Whip scars on the naked soul: myth and Elenchos in Plato's Gorgias.Radcliffe G. Edmonds - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
  46. The freedom of Platonic myth.G. R. F. Ferrari - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  47. The Beginning Of Philosophy. From Logos To Myth.Janina Gajda-Krynicka - 2012 - Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 7 (3):29-43.
    The beginning of Greek rational thought is usually rendered as „transition from myth to logos”. This immediate conclusion was popularized by W. Nestle’s work although its sources can be tracked down to Aristotle’s Metaphysics I, and may be understood in two ways: 1. As a breakdown by rational thought a thinking through „images”, natural in the first stories of „carriers of primitive mentality”, which in Plato’s metaphor of a cave equals leaving by a philosopher the world of images-shadows. 2. As (...)
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  48. Combating oblivion: the myth of Er as both philosophy's challenge and inspiration.Francisco J. Gonzalez - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
  49. Myth, image and likeness in Plato's Timaeus.Elsa Grasso - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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  50. Why two epochs of human history? On the myth of the Statesman.Christoph Horn - 2012 - In Catherine Collobert, Pierre Destrée & Francisco J. Gonzalez (eds.), Plato and Myth: Studies on the Use and Status of Platonic Myths. Brill.
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