Platonic Myth and Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532906831)

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.

Author: Robert Zaslavsky
ISBN-10: 1532906838
ISBN-13: 9781532906831
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2016
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.31d