On the Good Life: Thinking Through the Intermediaries in Plato's Philebus

In: SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy Ser.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Unity of the Philebus: Metaphysical Assumptions of the Good Human Life -- The Dialectical Method and the Fourfold Structure of Reality -- Using the Method and the Fourfold Model to Analyze Pleasure and Knowledge -- II. The Placement of Pleasure and Knowledge in the Fourfold Articulation of Reality -- The Placement of Pleasure and Knowledge on the Fourfold Metaphysical Map -- The Relation between Pleasure and Knowledge in Light of Their Placement on the Metaphysical Map -- III. Hybrid Varieties of Pleasure: True Mixed Pleasures and False Pure Pleasures -- Distinct Criteria for Classifying Pleasures: Truth/Falsehood and Purity/Impurity -- Hybrid Pleasures -- Can Mixed Pleasures Be True? -- Can Pure Pleasures Be False? -- Why Hybrid Pleasures Matter -- IV. The Nature of Pleasure: Absolute Standards of Replenishment and Due Measure -- Pleasure as Perceived Replenishment of Some Lack -- False Pleasures of Anticipation (36c-40e) -- Absolute Standards of Replenishment and Due Measure -- V. Pleasures of Learning and the Role of Due Measure in Experiencing Them -- Aporia and the Purity of our Pleasures of Learning -- False and Impure Pleasures of Learning Alongside True and Pure Ones -- Mixed Pleasures of Learning -- False Pleasures of Learning -- The Role of Due Measure in Experiencing Pleasures of Learning -- VI. Plato's Conception of Pleasure Confronting Three Aristotelian Critiques -- Aristotle's View of Pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics -- A Platonic Response to Aristotle's Critique of Pleasure as Genesis and as Replenishment of a Lack -- Appendix. The Philebus's Implicit Response to the Aporiai of Participation from the Parmenides -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.

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On the good life: thinking through the intermediaries in Plato's Philebus

Ionescu, Cristina

Ionescu, Cristina

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The unity of the Philebus: metaphysical assumptions of the good human life -- The placement of pleasure and knowledge in the fourfold articulation of reality -- Hybrid varieties of pleasure: true mixed pleasures and false pure pleasures -- The nature of pleasure: absolute standards of filling or replenishment and due measure -- Pleasures of learning and the role of due measure in experiencing them -- Plato's conception of pleasure confronting three Aristotelian critiques -- The Philebus' implicit response to the aporiai of participation from the Parmenides.

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On the good life: thinking through the intermediaries in Plato's Philebus

Ionescu, Cristina

Ionescu, Cristina

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The unity of the Philebus: metaphysical assumptions of the good human life -- The placement of pleasure and knowledge in the fourfold articulation of reality -- Hybrid varieties of pleasure: true mixed pleasures and false pure pleasures -- The nature of pleasure: absolute standards of filling or replenishment and due measure -- Pleasures of learning and the role of due measure in experiencing them -- Plato's conception of pleasure confronting three Aristotelian critiques -- The Philebus' implicit response to the aporiai of participation from the Parmenides.

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