| Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration Contributor(s): Zaslavsky, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1532906838 ISBN-13: 9781532906831 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Hermeneutics |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.44 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |