Irony and the Care of the Soul in Plato's Early Dialogues

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. 1. Platonism and the Physical and Sensible Conditions of Intelligence.
3. The Origin and Nature of Intelligence 25
4. Embodying Intelligence: Animals and Us in Plato’s Timaeus 39
5. The Question of Platonic Division and Modern Epistemology 59
6. Intelligenza e Intelligibilità nel Timeo di Platone 81
7. 2. Platonism and the Ethical Nature of Intelligence.
8. Irony and the Care of the Soul in Plato's Early Dialogues 107
9. Stepping into the Same Rivers: Consciousness, Personal Identity and the Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics 117
10. 3. Platonism on the Intelligent Conditions of Intelligence and Intelligibility.
11. Thinking about Thought. An Inquiry into the Life of Platonism 141
12. Zum Begriff des ‚Geistes‘ in der Frühen Neuzeit. Überlegungen am Beispiel Francesco Patrizi da Chersos 159
13. Reminiscence in Plato 179
14. Platonismo e scienze della mente: cosa é l’intuizione? 191
15. 4. Platonism on Intellect, Infinity, and the Intelligibility of Concepts of God.
16. The Notion of Infinity in Plotinus and Cantor 213
17. Nous: Unity in Difference 231
18. The One of the Soul and the 'Flower of the Intellect'. Models of Hyper-intellection in Later Neoplatonism 247
19. The Influence of Platonism on St. Thomas Aquina's Concept of Mind 259
20. Liberté divine chez Plotin et Jamblique (Traité 39 [VI 8] 7, 11-15 et De mysteriis III, 17-20) 275
21. 5. Platonism and Forms of Intelligence in Art and Education.
22. Intelligible Beauty and Artistic Creation: The Renaissance Platonism of Judah Abravanel 293
23. La liberté est dans la mémoire: Zur Notwendigkeit des auswendigen Spiels am Beispiel der Werke von Alexander Skrjabin 309
24. The Way Up and the Way Back is the Same: The Ascent of Cognition in Plato's Analogies of the Sun, the Line and the Cave and the Path Intelligence Takes 313
25. Back Matter 343