Book contents
- A Less Familiar Plato
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- A Less Familiar Plato
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Embodiment and Participation in the Divine
- Part II Introduction to the Republic and Philebus
- 3 The Training of Perception
- 4 The Nonhypothetical Good
- 5 Is the Idea of the Good beyond Being?
- 6 The Philebus
- Part III Introduction to Love, Myth, Erotikē Technē, and Generative Epistēmē
- Appendix Scientific Perception or Sharp Seeing in the Middle and Late Dialogues
- Primary Texts
- General Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Nonhypothetical Good
Art, Mind, Imagination in the Republic
from Part II - Introduction to the Republic and Philebus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
- A Less Familiar Plato
- Cambridge Studies in Religion and Platonism
- A Less Familiar Plato
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Embodiment and Participation in the Divine
- Part II Introduction to the Republic and Philebus
- 3 The Training of Perception
- 4 The Nonhypothetical Good
- 5 Is the Idea of the Good beyond Being?
- 6 The Philebus
- Part III Introduction to Love, Myth, Erotikē Technē, and Generative Epistēmē
- Appendix Scientific Perception or Sharp Seeing in the Middle and Late Dialogues
- Primary Texts
- General Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Republic Book 6, we encounter philosophical art for the first time in its fullest register. I start with three initial texts that help, in part, to frame Book 6, but that do not perhaps receive the attention they deserve.
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- A Less Familiar PlatoFrom Phaedo to Philebus, pp. 121 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023