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The Sophists
The Sophists By Stacy Cacciatore The readings this week centered on the exploration of the Sophists and the debate regarding if they existed, if they did exist, what did they stand for, and why it matters. Schiappa and Poulakos engage in a fiery debate on the topic of Sophists and they go back in forth … [Read more…]
Notes -Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception
Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception Charalabopoulos By Stacy Cacciatore Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi, 331. ISBN It is quite likely, as many scholars have suggested, that Plato used performance of his dialogues as a teaching tool in the … [Read more…]
Notes – The homoerotics of the Phaedrus
The homoerotics of the Phaedrus Page duBois “Plato’s Phaedrus, as a text of high seduction, aimed at drawing the reader toward erotic life and therefore toward philosophy, plays with the edges of the Greek definitions of male and female to liberate the reader to a paradoxical sense of the fluidity of boundaries,” (p 9) … [Read more…]
Preplatonic Philosophers
Stacy Cacciatore To understand Plato and Socrates, we must first understand the philosophers that came before them. At first, I was confused at the difference between the terms “Presocratics” and “Pre-platonics”. Nietzsche coined the term, “Preplatonics” because he posited that Plato was the first philosopher that included components of the other philosophers that … [Read more…]
Cacciatore’s Views On Plato
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