Plato’s Animals Gadflies Horses Swans and Other Philosophical Beasts 1st Edition by Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas 0253016134 9780253016133

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ISBN 10: 0253016134 

ISBN 13: 9780253016133

Author: Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas

Plato’s Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato’s Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato’s work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato’s understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato’s bestiary in both Greek and English.

Table of contents:

The Animal of Fable and Myth

Socrates as muōps and narkē

The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur

The Political Animal

The (En)gendered Animal

The Philosophical Animal

Animals and the Afterlife

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