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Ordnung und Geschichte Band 6: Platon
1957
by
Voegelin
Eric Voegelin
Plato
Political Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy
Anthropology
Aristotle
Jeremy Bentham
John Locke
Utilitarianism
Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes
Democracy
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rule of Law
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte
Positivism
Legal Theory
Liberalism
Education
Thomas Aquinas
Table of Contents · 83 segments
1
Front Matter and Publication Information
bibliography
2
Table of Contents
bibliography
3
Analytical Table of Contents: Plato and Socrates through Timaeus and Critias
bibliography
4
Analytical Table of Contents: Chapter 6 The Nomoi
chapter
5
Chapter 1 Opening: Plato’s Life, Political Crisis, and Socrates as Source
chapter
6
Socrates and the Apology
chapter
7
Drama and Myth of the Socratic Soul
chapter
8
Erôs and the World: Plato, Dion, and Sicily
chapter
9
The Letter to Hermeias of Atarneus
chapter
10
Gorgias: War Against Corrupt Society
chapter
11
The Existential Question and Gorgias’ Shame
theoretical
12
Polos, Intellectual Dishonesty, and Envy of Tyranny
theoretical
13
Polos Defeated and Callicles Enters the Battle
theoretical
14
Pathos, Communication, and Transcendent Judgment
theoretical
15
Callicles’ Inverted Philosophy of Existence
theoretical
16
Pleonexia and Callicles’ Anti-Philosophical Admonition
theoretical
17
Socratic Critique of Callicles: Order, Philia, and Cosmos
theoretical
18
The Transfer of Authority
theoretical
19
The Judgment of the Dead
theoretical
20
Chapter 3: Politeia
chapter
21
The Structure of the Republic
chapter
22
Ascent and Descent in the Republic
chapter
23
Resistance Against Corrupt Society: Depth of the Soul and Conceptual Opposition
theoretical
24
Justice and Polypragmosyne: The First Conceptual Pair
theoretical
25
Philosopher, Philodoxos, Truth, and False Theology
theoretical
26
Philosophy as Salvation, Judgment, and Political Science
theoretical
27
Sophistic Doxa of Justice: Thrasymachus, Glaucon, and Contract Theory
theoretical
28
Ring of Gyges, Dream Anthropology, and Society as the Great Sophist
theoretical
29
The Creation of Order: Socrates’ Defense of Justice
theoretical
30
The Zētēma: Order, Soul, and the Anthropological Principle
theoretical
31
The Founder Game: Realization, Withdrawal, and the Politeia in the Soul
theoretical
32
The Cognitive Inquiry: Good Polis, Eidos, Physis, and Historical Order
theoretical
33
Poleogony: The Genesis of the Polis
theoretical
34
The Phoenician Tale
theoretical
35
The Soul Model and the Social Model
theoretical
36
The Agathon, Paideia, and the Philosopher’s Return
theoretical
37
The Decay of Order in the Republic
theoretical
38
The Somatic Unity of the Polis
theoretical
39
The Mythic Failure of Incarnation
theoretical
40
Initial taxonomy of political forms in Plato's Republic
theoretical
41
Psychological transitions among regime types
theoretical
42
Eros tyrannos and the spiritual order of evil
theoretical
43
Political cycles, civilization, and the ordering myth
theoretical
44
The Epilogue as measurement of life in the perspective of death
theoretical
45
The old quarrel between philosophy and mimetic poetry
theoretical
46
The attack on Homer and the end of the age of myth
theoretical
47
New symbolic forms after Socrates and transition to Chapter 4
theoretical
48
Phaedrus: Retreat from the Polis and the Hierarchy of Souls
theoretical
49
The Politikos Trilogy and Plato’s Mediated Dialogue Form
theoretical
50
The Theaetetus Digression: Philosopher, Politician, and the Problem of Evil
theoretical
51
The Concealment Tactics of the Statesman
theoretical
52
The Literal Structure of the Myth of Cosmic Cycles
theoretical
53
Interpreting the Cosmic Cycles: Theodicy, Soul, and History
theoretical
54
Misreadings of the Statesman and the Classification of Political Forms
theoretical
55
The Royal Ruler, Rebellious Society, and the Limits of Law
theoretical
56
Mimesis, Second-Best Legality, and the Critique of Rule by Laws
theoretical
57
Royal Art as Purification, Weaving, and Spiritual Regeneration of the Polis
theoretical
58
Chapter opening: Plato’s philosophy of myth in Timaeus and Critias
chapter
59
The Egyptian myth: ideal Athens, Sais, and Atlantis
theoretical
60
The ontological status of the Idea of the polis
theoretical
61
Anamnesis, ancient Athens, and Plato’s soul drama
theoretical
62
Plato as poet of the Idea
theoretical
63
The planned dialogue sequence and the Critias fragment
theoretical
64
The Philosophy of Myth
theoretical
65
The Myth of Myth in the Timaeus
theoretical
66
The Myth of Incarnation in the Timaeus
theoretical
67
The Critias: Atlantis, Prehistoric Athens, and the Rebirth of the Idea
theoretical
68
Chapter 6: The Laws
chapter
69
Misinterpretations of Plato's Nomoi
chapter
70
The Platonic Theocracy
chapter
71
Guiding Symbols in the Nomoi
chapter
72
Political Form and Cosmic Number in the Nomoi
chapter
73
Revelation at Noon: Prooimia, Persuasion, and God as Measure
chapter
74
The Drama of the Polis and the Serious Game
chapter
75
The Creed, the Nocturnal Council, and the Salvation of the Polis
chapter
76
Index of Persons
bibliography
77
Subject Index
bibliography
78
Translator’s Notes
footnotes
79
Afterword I: Plato as Creator of Political Order
essay
80
Afterword II: Evocation, Existential Anxiety, and Political Theory
essay
81
Afterword III: Socrates, the Soul, and the New Myth
essay
82
Afterword IV: Gorgias, Politeia, Phaidros, and Nomoi
essay
83
Afterword V: Platonic Episteme and the Renewal of Political Science
essay