Tag Archives: Plato

Gordon, Brill and Long Discuss Zuckert’s Keynote

May 20, 2010

Jill Gordon, Sara Brill and I gathered after the keynote address given by Catherine Zuckert at this year’s Ancient Philosophy Society meeting at Michigan State to discuss the lecture entitled, “Two Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timeaus.”

Catherine Zuckert has recently published an extensive study of the dialogues entitled Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues with the University of Chicago Press. In that text, she offers a reading of the dialogues in accordance with the chronological order of the drama they articulate.

We also talked about the Ancient Philosophy Society in general and continued our ongoing discussion of the meaning and nature of Plato’s writing.

Digital Dialogue 33: Brill, Gordon and Long on Zuckert’s Keynote at APS 2010

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Of Interest

Holly Moore on the Digital Dialogue

November 5, 2009

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Long time APS member, Holly Moore, defended her dissertation on Plato’s Analogical Thought at DePaul University in October.

Dr. Moore joined Christopher Long for episode 15 of the Digital Dialogue in which she discussed her dissertation. Holly traces the manner in which Plato uses the structure of analogies to reflect on the nature of philosophical images.

As Holly puts it in one of her comments:

So, analogy, then, is the most philosophical of images, insofar as it acts like a reflection upon the very structure of imaging and as a reflection upon philosophical reflection.

To read more about Holly’s work, visit the blog post for Digital Dialogue episode 15, where she responds to comments and questions from students in Marina McCoy course on rhetoric at Boston College.

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Of Interest

McCoy and Long in Digital Dialogue

August 4, 2009

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Marina McCoy joined Christopher Long on the Digital Dialogue podcast to discuss the Protagoras and the transformative political possibilities endemic to the idea of sympathetic listening Marina outlines in her book, Plato on the Rhetoric of Philosophers and Sophists.

The Digital Dialogue podcast is part of a larger project Professor Long has undertaken to explore the possibilities social media offers philosophical scholarship. His project, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, has been awarded a summer faculty fellowship by the Pennsylvania State University’s Teaching and Learning with Technology.

The Digital Dialogue, which is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes, is produced in an attempt to thematize and cultivate the excellences associated with dialogue. It is available through iTunesU where you are encouraged to subscribe to receive future episodes.

Digital Dialogue 6 with Marina McCoy: Attentive Listening

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The Digital Dialogue podcast is produced in the spirit of the Socratic practice of politics which was committed to turning individuals in dialogue toward the question of the good, the just and the beautiful.

Books

Plato and the Question of Beauty

July 16, 2008

Announcing the publication of Drew Hyland’s Plato and the Question of Beauty.

The publisher’s description of the book reads as follows:

“A well written and forcefully argued exposition of one of the most important themes in Plato’s philosophy.” —Walter Brogan, Villanova University

Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy’s keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland’s close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato’s failure, however, tells us something important about beauty—that it cannot be reduced to logos.

Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=76819

Studies in Continental Thought
168 pages
978-0-253-35138-8, cloth $55.00
978-0-253-21977-0, paper $21.95