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024 7 _a10.7591/9780801471490
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780801471490
035 _a(DE-B1597)492949
035 _a(OCoLC)1091696127
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aB371.A5
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072 7 _aPHI019000
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082 0 4 _a184
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPlato
_eautore
245 1 1 _a"Gorgias" and "Phaedrus" :
_bRhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics /
_cPlato.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aAgora Editions
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics --
_tGorgias. DRAMATIS PERSONAE: CALLICLES, SOCRATES, CHAEREPHON, GORGIAS, PoLus --
_tThe Rhetoric of Justice in Plato’s Gorgias --
_tFrontmatter 2 --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics --
_tPhaedrus. Dramatis Personae: Socrates, Phaedrus --
_tThe Rhetoric of Love and Learning in Plato's Phaedrus
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols Jr., offers precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice: To the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue contains some of Plato's most significant and famous discussions of major political themes, and focuses dramatically and with unrivaled intensity on Socrates as a political thinker and actor. Featuring some of Plato's most soaringly lyrical passages, the Phaedrus investigates the soul's erotic longing and its relationship to the whole cosmos, as well as inquiring into the nature of rhetoric and the problem of writing.Nichols's attention to dramatic detail brings the dialogues to life. Plato's striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translations render references to the gods accurately and non-monotheistically for the first time, and include a fascinating variety of oaths and invocations. A general introduction on rhetoric from the Greeks to the present shows the problematic relation of rhetoric to philosophy and politics, states the themes that unite the two dialogues, and outlines interpretive suggestions that are then developed more fully for each dialogue. The twin dialogues reveal both the private and the political rhetoric emphatic in Plato's philosophy, yet often ignored in commentaries on it. Nichols believes that Plato's thought on rhetoric has been largely misunderstood, and he uses his translations as an opportunity to reconstruct the classical position on right relations between thought and public activity.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEthics
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aLove
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 _aRhetoric
_vEarly works to 1800.
650 4 _aAncient History & Classical Studies.
650 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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700 1 _aNichols, James H.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801471490
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801471490
856 4 2 _3Cover
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