Image and Argument in Plato's Republic

Image and Argument in Plato's Republic
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781438479149
ISBN-13 : 143847914X
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Book Synopsis Image and Argument in Plato's Republic by : Marina Berzins McCoy

Download or read book Image and Argument in Plato's Republic written by Marina Berzins McCoy and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an important, positive role in Plato's philosophical argumentation. She begins by examining the poetic educational context in which Plato is writing and then moves on to the main lines of argument and how they depend upon a variety of uses of the imagination, including paradigms, analogies, models, and myths. McCoy takes up the paradoxical nature of such key metaphysical images as the divided line and cave: on the one hand, the cave and divided line explicitly state problems with images and the visible realm. On the other hand, they are themselves images designed to draw the reader to greater intellectual understanding. The author gives a perspectival reading, arguing that the human being is always situated in between the transcendence of being and the limits of human perspective. Images can enhance our capacity to see intellectually as well as to reimagine ourselves vis-à-vis the timeless and eternal. Engaging with a wide range of continental, dramatic, and Anglo-American scholarship on images in Plato, McCoy examines the treatment of comedy, degenerate regimes, the nature of mimesis, the myth of Er, and the nature of Platonic dialogue itself.


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