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100 1 $aO'Connell, Robert J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82140080
245 10 $aPlato on the human paradox /$cby Robert J. O'Connell.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bFordham University Press,$c1997.
300 $axviii, 162 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aRev. ed. of: An introduction to Plato's metaphysics. 1987.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $g1.$tArete or Human Excellence.$tThe Charge Against Socrates.$tOn Emotional Thinking and Socrates's Older Accusers.$tHis Defense of His Conduct: "Moral Cosmos"$tArete, Being "Good At," Having "Know-How"$tGood-ness and Profit, Advantageousness.$tLong-Term Profit.$tThe Specter of Death.$tEudaemonism and Its Varieties.$tDeontologism: The Ethics of Duty.$tThe Categorical Imperative.$tDeontologism and the Other "Virtues"$tTeleologism.$tThe Teleological Universe.$tTeleologism Reconciles Eudaemonism and Deontologism.$tEudaemonism and Deontologism in the Apology.$tSocrates, the Gods, and Moral Cosmos --$g2.$tGod, the Gods, and Moral Cosmos in Socrates's Apology.$tAnaxagoras and the Machine Universe.$tThe Gods in the Apology.$tThe Central "Objection" to Socrates.$tSocrates's View: Moral Cosmos Because Religious Cosmos.$tAchilles and "Duty"$tKnowing vs. Opinion.$tWhat Socrates "Knows"$tWhat Can We Know of Death - and Gods.$tSocrates's "Faith" in Moral Cosmos.$tConclusions: Socrates's Belief about Gods.
505 80 $tThe "Gods" as Personal.$tBelief and Knowledge --$g3.$tFrom Belief and Opinion to "Knowledge"$tBelief and Authority Figures.$tCrises of Belief.$tThe Clash of Authorities.$tThe "Herd" Reaction.$tWanted: A "Public Philosophy"$tTwo Extremes: Credulity and the Overcritical Attitude.$tPlato and the Authority Figures of His Age.$tThe Physical Philosophers.$tThe Sophists and Their Rhetoric.$tThe Poets: Matter and Manner.$tThe Manner of Poetic Communication.$tSocrates on the Dangers of Emotion.$tSocrates's "Rationalism"$tParmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras.$tDefinitions, Immanent Essences, and "Ideal" Realities.$tPlato Reintegrates the Emotions.$tPlato's "Reform" of Socratism.$tEducation in Plato's Republic.$tMoral Perception and Passionate Commitment.$tDesires, Emotions, Reasoning, and Understanding --$g4.$tPlato's World of Ideal Realities.$tDid Plato Consider Them "Real"?$tAre They Only "Ideas"?$tThe Mental Strain Involved.$tHow Plato Came to His Theory.$tThe Road of "Naming" and Defining.
505 80 $tThe Need for "Objective" Knowledge.$tFrom "Ideas" to Ideals.$tThe Gods, Ideals, and Moral Cosmos.$tEidos, Idea, and Concrete "Look-Alikes"$tParadigms: Normative Standards.$tCharacters as Ideals Concretized.$tConcrete Ideal as Deontological.$tThe "Distance" of Dissimilarity.$tParticipation.$tLearning and "Remembering"$tSummary: Plato's Route to "Real" Ideals.$tIdeals and Moral Cosmos.$tLinks with the Apology.$tThe World of Ideals: A "Second Voyage"$tThe Gods and the Ideals.$tPlato's Central Concern: Moral Cosmos.$t"Physical" vs. "Moral" Sense.$tIs It Dianoia or Noesis?$tHow Plato Came to His Noetic Position on the Ideals.$tParmenides and Heraclitus.$tMosaic or Synthesis?$tThe Soul as Disembodied Mind --$g5.$tBody, Soul, and Immortality.$tPlato's "Dualism"$tFrom Reasoning to Contemplation.$t"Leaving the Body and Senses Behind"$tSecond and Third Arguments.$tThe Mind-Soul's Kinship with the Ideals.$tIs the Soul Merely the Body's "Harmonization?"$tCebes's Objection: The Soul Might "Wear Out".
505 80 $tEvaluating Plato's Arguments.$tQuestions to Plato's View.$tPlato's Progress on Questions of the Soul.$tAristotle's Corrections to Plato.$tSoul as "Substantial Form" of Body.$tThe Contrast with Simmias's View.$tSoul as Mortal.$t"Immortal Mind"$tAquinas's Interpretation of Aristotle --$g6.$tArete, Freedom, and Eudaemonia.$tFreedom in the Phaedo.$tEudaemonia.$tArete.$tPurification and the Four Traditional Virtues.$tPlato's Reformation of Greek Ethical Tradition.$tThe Human in Plato's Republic.$tPolis and Human: Parallel Structures.$tThe Aim: Unified Harmony.$tFreedom and Arete in the Republic.$tArete and the Traditional Four Virtues.$tThe Problem of Eudaemonia.$tA Problem for Future Thinkers.$gApp.$tA Note on the "Machine Universe" --$tA Selective Bibliography on Plato's Thought --$tTable: Some Greek Historical Background.
600 00 $aPlato.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139459
650 0 $aMetaphysics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084286
650 0 $aMetaphysics$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107715
700 1 $aO'Connell, Robert J.$tIntroduction to Plato's Metaphysics.
852 00 $bglx$hB398.M4$iO26 1997