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Clouds, Mysteries, Socrates and Plato
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Scholars have observed that in Aristophanes’ Clouds entrance to the phrontisterion is likened to initiation into the mysteries; but there seems to have been no discussion of the effect that such a comparison would be likely to produce upon an audience of the period. In the present paper I wish to explore this question; and also to consider the relevance of Aristophanes’ words to anything Socrates may himself have said or done, and Plato’s attitude to the situation.
... Jeśli bowiem w ten sposób wyrażał się Sokrates, to trzeba szukać tropu sokratejskiego (tego typu wnioski wyciąga Adkins z misteryjnego języka w Chmurach Arystofanesa, zob. : Adkins 1970;Hawtrey 1976: 22). Pa- ...
Notre texte se fonde sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle Platon traite dans le Phèdre de questions relatives à l’Académie qu’il a fondée. La scénographie du dialogue est examinée en tant qu’évocation de la situation topographique de l’Académie et du symbolisme qui lui est associé. La proposition d’un modèle éducatif différent de celui qu’illustre la relation Lysias-Phèdre est également considérée comme spécifique à l’Académie. Enfin, on étudie la relation établie par le dialogue entre les traités de rhétorique qui s’y trouvent cités et les décrets de la démocratie athénienne qui y sont considérés comme l’œuvre d’hommes politiques, afin de mettre en évidence le rôle de la bibliothèque dans l’Académie.
The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been thoroughly revised and updated by their original authors. The volume covers the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. Plato's dialogues are approached as unified works and considered within their intellectual context, and the revised introduction suggests a way of reading the dialogues that attends to the differences between them while also tracing their interrelations. The result is a rich and wide-ranging volume which will be valuable for all students and scholars of Plato.
In Clouds, Aristophanes deals with a wide range of educational issues of the kind which recur in all cultures throughout the world. What is his intention when dealing with Socratic way of learning and teaching (initiation-language and terms of philosophical activity in phrontistêrion)? In this comedy we find opposing values such as the traditional aims of education and the 'modern' beliefs of sophists. By using certain learning techniques he highlighted cultural polarities and incongruities (Better Vs Worse Argument), so he emphasized the dichotomy between the empty theorizing of the new intellectuals and the real practical needs of education (i.e. learning skills, implementation in praxis etc.)
This article examines Aristophanes' Clouds within the framework of the ritual events of the Great Dionysia, drawing parallels between those events and various textual and performative aspects of the play. It is argued that scholarship to date has largely subordinated the play's ritual aspects, examination of which reveals that in fact Aristophanes has crafted a vigorous defense of polis religion against the 'new thinking' and 'new gods' represented by the play's foil, Socrates.
The critique of the poetry in Plato’s Ion unfolds in a clearly political context in which, in contrast to the old model of knowledge represented by poetry, Plato presents a new model, identified with philosophy, which questions the legitimacy of poets and rhapsodists as competent guides of the polis and citizens. In this critique, the characters and dramatic elements of dialogue are fundamental. Thus in Ion and Socrates the Athenian philosopher brings together all the characteristics that describe a real rhapsodist of that time as well as the philosophical activity of the historical Socrates.
The Helen of Gorgias is designed to provoke the aspiring speaker to consider his relationship with society as a whole. The speech's extreme claims regarding the power of logos reflect simplistic ideas about speaker-audience relations current among Gorgias' target audience, ideas reflected in an interpretive stance towards model speeches that privileges method over truth. The Helen pretends to encourage this conception of logos and interpretive stance in order to expose the intense desire and naïve credulity that drive a coolly technical appraisal of model speeches. The Helen thus manifests, with a playfulness suited to its liminal position, a concern for the ethical and social formation of those who might accept the invitation to study logos. Copyright © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Apologie et comédie chez Platon : essai de reconstruction croisée Dans Les Nuées, Aristophane adresse des critiques à Socrate auxquelles Platon répond philosophiquement dans l’ Apologie . Or le Socrate des Nuées porte des traits de Protagoras, et certains reproches attribués à l’un valent pour l’autre. Comme pour Socrate, Platon a composé pour Protagoras une apologie, dans le Théétète . Si nous comparons les accusations de la pièce à ce que Platon prête à Protagoras, nous constatons qu’il se fait son défenseur. Mais pour quelle raison et à quel point de vue ? Par une analyse des concepts de geloion et de mimèsis comique, on montre comment Platon déploie une stratégie de réappropriation de la pensée de Protagoras – pour lui donner un tour philosophique qui constitue en même temps une réflexion critique sur le statut de l’objet comique.
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