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Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration

Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1532906838
ISBN13: 9781532906831
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 25 2016
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.

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