Emotions in Plato / / edited by Laura Candiotto, Olivier Renaut.

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 political t...

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Superior document:Brill's Plato studies series ; Volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Brill's Plato studies series ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:Includes indexes.
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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.