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Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration

Robert Zaslavsky

Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: Apr 25th, 2016
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.02in - 5.98in - 0.31in - 0.44lb
  • EAN: 9781532906831
  • Categories: Hermeneutics