Emotions in Plato /

Emotions ( pathè ) such as anger, fear, shame, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship have long been underestimated in Plato's philosophy. The aim of Emotions in Plato is to provide a consistent account of the role of emotions in Plato's psychology, epistemology, ethics and p...

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Other Authors: Candiotto, Laura (Editor), Renaut, Olivier (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series ; 4.

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Call Number: B398.E45

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Why Plato Comes First /
  • Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut
  • For a Taxonomy of Plato's Emotions
  • Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato's Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance /
  • Laura Candiotto and Vasilis Politis
  • The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato's Critique of Poetry /
  • Pia Campeggiani
  • Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation /
  • Freya Möbus
  • Emotions in Context: "Risk" as Condition for Emotion /
  • Stefano Maso
  • Plato's Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality
  • Emotions and Rationality in the Timaeus (Ti. 42a-b, 69c-72e) /
  • Olivier Renaut
  • On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition /
  • Lidia Palumbo and Anna Motta
  • Plato's Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato's Laws /
  • Myrthe L. Bartels
  • The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus /
  • Karine Tordo-Rombaut
  • Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions /
  • Carla Francalanci
  • The Ethical and Political Value of Plato's Emotions
  • The Notion of φθόνος in Plato /
  • Luc Brisson
  • On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d-50e) /
  • Beatriz Bossi
  • Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato's Republic /
  • Chiara Militello
  • Shame and Virtue in Plato's Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet /
  • Julia Pfefferkorn
  • Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato's Phaedrus /
  • Simon Scott
  • Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development /
  • Marta Jimenez
  • Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue /
  • Rachana Kamtekar
  • Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato's Laws /
  • Frisbee C.C. Sheffield
  • The Invention of Emotion? /
  • David Konstan
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Relevant Passages
  • Index of Subjects.