Plato and Platonism
Author | : Walter Pater |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Platonists |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Platonists |
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Author | : Adam Lee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192588141 |
As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a superficial aesthete known mainly for his 'Conclusion' to The Renaissance to reposition his contribution to literature and the history of ideas. In his criticism and fiction, including his studies on myth, Pater was influenced by several of Plato's dialogues. Phaedrus, Symposium, Theaetetus, Cratylus, and The Republic informed his philosophy of beauty, history, myth, knowledge, ethics, language, and style. As a philosopher, critic, and artist, Plato embodied what it meant to be an author to Pater, who imitated his creative practice from vision to expression. For Pater Platonism was also a point of contact with his contemporaries, including Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde, offering a means to take new measure of their literary relationships. Using the interdisciplinary critical tools of Pater's own educational milieu which combined literature, philosophy, and classics, The Platonism of Walter Pater repositions the importance Pater's contribution to literature and the history of ideas.
Author | : Adam Lee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198848536 |
As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. It overturns his reputation as a superficial aesthete known mainly for his 'Conclusion' to The Renaissance to reposition his contribution to literature and the history of ideas. In his criticism and fiction, including his studies on myth, Pater was influenced by several of Plato's dialogues. Phaedrua, Symposium, Theaetetus, Cratylus, and The Republic informed his philosophy of beauty, history, myth, knowledge, ethics, language, and style. As a philosopher, critic, and artist, Plato embodied what it meant to be an author to Pater, who imitated his creative practice from vision to expression. For Pater Platonism was also a point of contact with his contemporaries, including Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde, offering a means to take new measure of their literary relationships. Using the interdisciplinary critical tools of Pater's own educational milieu which combined literature, philosophy, and classics, The Platonism of Walter Pater repositions the importance Pater's contribution to literature and the history of ideas.
Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1443800929 |
“By Platonism,” the author clarifies, “is meant not Neo-Platonism of any kind, but the leading principles of Plato’s doctrine, which I have tried to see in close connexion with himself as he is presented in his own writings.” The critique here presented of Plato’s work is never independent of Plato as a man or Plato as philosopher, but rather enables Pater to study the close relation between author and text. The diversity of areas covered is in itself a fine achievement, and Pater is able to give each area enough attention to make it self-sufficient (each chapter was originally a lecture), yet at the same time, he succeeds in unifying all the areas to make for a well-structured book. Especially interesting are the chapter which explores the relationship between Plato and Socrates; the chapter on Plato’s aesthetics; the chapter on Plato’s Republic; and the chapter dealing with the relationship between Plato and the Sophists.
Author | : Walter Pater |
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Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
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WITH the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts. Natura nihil facit per saltum; and in the history of philosophy there are no absolute beginnings. Fix where we may the origin of this or that doctrine or idea, the doctrine of “reminiscence,” for instance, or of “the perpetual flux,” the theory of “induction,” or the philosophic view of things generally, the specialist will still be able to find us some earlier anticipation of that doctrine, that mental tendency. The most elementary act of mental analysis takes time to do; the most rudimentary sort of speculative knowledge, abstractions so simple that we can hardly conceive the human mind without them, must grow, and with difficulty. Aeterna Press
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Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
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Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781017590890 |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 110803425X |
The first volume of Pater's only novel, first published in 1885 and here reissued in his collected works of 1900-1.