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Articles 1 - 14 of 14
Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Protean Aspects Of Change In Euripides' Medea, Phillip Wilson
Protean Aspects Of Change In Euripides' Medea, Phillip Wilson
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
By drawing on the Homeric tradition, Euripides creates an image of Medea as epic hero with aspects of both Achilles and Odysseus. But this is not enough. As this paper shows, ultimately the portrait that emerges of Medea is that of Proteus. In addition, this paper asserts that not only is Medea a protean figure, but the very shape of the drama that Euripides concocts is protean as well. He shapeshifts the traditional aspects of the tragedy he transforms the form.
Strategic Meaning: Words As Tools Or Traps, Debra Blankenship
Strategic Meaning: Words As Tools Or Traps, Debra Blankenship
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
Upon initial glance, Plato’s Cratylus appears to be a grand romp of words with Socrates’s wit front and center. But a closer examination of the text shows a deadly serious, carefully plotted battle by Socrates to establish his philosophical perspective as preeminent. Plato thus reveals, by the end of the dialogue, that the true battle that Socrates is waging is the struggle to establish what foundation knowledge shall be built upon.
Protagoras: Recollection Of Return, Roger Zemke
Protagoras: Recollection Of Return, Roger Zemke
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
The Homeric forms that Plato uses as a template for the Dialogues all contribute to a fictional recasting of the historical figure of Socrates as an epic Hero: the philosopher-king. This paper traces the idea of a recollection of return in the Protagoras as a means by which Plato creates this fictional image of Socrates. The traditional Greek notion of agon, with all its attendant functions and forms, helps Plato reveal a Socrates whose divine right as a philosopher-king would be the best hope for a return to the power and glory of Athens.
Plato's Protagoras: Myth And Democracy On Trial, David Johnson
Plato's Protagoras: Myth And Democracy On Trial, David Johnson
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
This paper traces how the use of a trial in Plato’s Protagoras serves to highlight the issues of Myth and Democracy; one might even say to put them on trial. While the Protagoras is a complicated work, some aspects of its underlying themes are quite clear. For Plato, democracy pales in comparison to the philosopher-king, and the Protagoras’s structure enables Plato to set up Socrates as just such a figure.
Alteration To Exaltation In Euripides' Medea, Jennifer Blakeslee
Alteration To Exaltation In Euripides' Medea, Jennifer Blakeslee
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
Euripides’s Medea keeps certain aspects of traditional Greek tragedy while radically altering others. This paper shows how he changes the character of Medea into a commentary against both the restrictions of the Greek tragic and epic norms and the ignorance of women upheld in these traditions. In the end, both Euripides and Medea saw the frailty of tradition as compared to the exaltation of individual experience.
Oikos And Polis In The Medea: Patterns Of The Heart And Mind, Debra Blankenship
Oikos And Polis In The Medea: Patterns Of The Heart And Mind, Debra Blankenship
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
In Euripides’s The Medea, the dichotomy of traditional values associated with oikos and polis serves as a means by which to comment on the issues of fifth century Athenian life. This paper shows how oikos the private domain) and polis (the public domain) come to be separate and conflicting concepts in the democracy of Athens. Euripides shaped The Medea around the idea of Medea throwing off the bonds of oikos as a result of her desire for revenge on Jason. Medea knowingly denies the bonds of oikos in order to assert her power. This paper finishes with a nod towards …
The Gorgias Explained, Dan Zajdel
The Gorgias Explained, Dan Zajdel
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
In Plato’s The Gorgias, five forms of language serve to explicitly inaugurate Socrates as a mythic hero. This paper traces these forms, along with allusions to myth and the known body of literature at the time, and shows how Plato achieves his goal.
The Cratylus: An Explication, Elizabeth Upham
The Cratylus: An Explication, Elizabeth Upham
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
In Plato’s Cratylus, Socrates, Hermogenes, and Cratylus attempt to discover if things are named with consideration to phusis or nomos. This paper traces these arguments throughout Plato’s dialogue. In the end, Plato is suggesting that Socrates is like a legislator with the power to bestow appropriate names to things, even as he hides Socrates behind a thin veil of uncertainty. Ultimately the reader must make up his or her own mind, why is Socrates so full of contradictions and why does Plato portray him this way.
The Importance Of Language In Plato's Cratylus, Jeffrey Tinnin
The Importance Of Language In Plato's Cratylus, Jeffrey Tinnin
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
By suggesting that Plato’s Cratylus is in the form of a ring composition, this paper explores how this form plays out within the context of a dialogue on the nature of language. It traces the ring composition form as it applies to the issue of naming. In the end it argues that for Plato the development of language is essential for the growth and maintenance of the soul. The twin structures of the ring compositional form enable this understanding in interesting and complex ways.
Allusions To Homer In The Protagoras, Aaron Johnson
Allusions To Homer In The Protagoras, Aaron Johnson
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
This paper traces Plato’s allusions to Homer in the Protagoras. What might seem to be surface details are, in fact, shown to both augment and support the dialogues underlying theme of the nature of virtue. By tracing these seemingly surface details, this paper shows just how Socrates goes about teaching virtue.
The Protagoras: Judge ... Jury ... And Explication, Patrick Hamilton
The Protagoras: Judge ... Jury ... And Explication, Patrick Hamilton
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
The idea of a trial is a strong aspect of the structure of Socrates’s direct conversation with Protagoras in Plato’s Protagoras. Each character in the dialogue assumes a particular role within the trial, with Socrates not as accused but as questioner. This paper uses the trial concept as a means in which to get inside the Protagoras and pry open the differing aspects of its characters.
Explication Of Plato's Protagoras, Keri Mcmurry
Explication Of Plato's Protagoras, Keri Mcmurry
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
In the Protagoras, Plato presents a view of the Classical Greek social and political structures, as well as personal attitudes and morals, by implying them through the narrative frame rather than explicitly stating them. The allusions to Homer throughout the Protagoras fuel this sense of the Classical Greek. Neither the structure nor the philosophical arguments, when taken alone, give a complete sense of the Protagoras. But when combined, a complex view of the Classical Greek world is achieved
Euripides: Master Of The Discrepant Event, Osa Skyberg
Euripides: Master Of The Discrepant Event, Osa Skyberg
Anthós Journal (1990-1996)
In Euripides’s Medea, a seemingly normative form of a traditional Greek tragedy is disturbed by a disruptive layer that shakes the audience to its core. Integral to the story of Medea is her revenge on Jason. One knows this, but Euripides adds a disruptive layer that increases the tragic tension of the story. This disruptive layer is the killing of innocent boys by their mother. And not only that, but the Mother being rewarded for this act. This paper shows how Euripides takes the traditional form of the Greek tragedy, adds disruptive layers, and makes the form his own.
Macintyre's Nietzsche: A Critique, R. Kevin Hill
Macintyre's Nietzsche: A Critique, R. Kevin Hill
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
In Alastair MacIntyre's "After Virtue", Nietzsche is presented as (1)an emotivist, (2) the culmination of the liberal tradition, and (3) fundamentally opposed to Aristotle. All three claims are criticized, thus casting doubt not only on MacIntyre's interpretation of Nietzsche, but also on his larger account of the history of Western ethical theory and practice, as well as on his proposal that we return to the tradition which Nietzsche has called into question.