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Second Sailing towards Immortality and God
- Source :
- Mnemosyne. 74:371-400
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Brill, 2020.
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Abstract
- This paper deals with the deuteros plous, literally ‘the second voyage’, proverbially ‘the next best way’, discussed in Plato’s Phaedo, the key passage being Phd. 99e4-100a3. I argue that (a) the ‘flight into the logoi’ can have two different interpretations, a standard one and a non-standard one. The issue is whether at 99e-100a Socrates means that both the student of erga and the student of logoi consider images (‘the standard interpretation’), or the student of logoi does not consider images (‘the non-standard interpretation’); (b) the non-standard one implies the problem of the hypothesis, a problem analogous to the problem of the elenchus; (c) there is a structural analogy between Descartes’ ontological argument for the existence of God in his 5th Meditation and the final proof for the immortality of the soul in the Phaedo.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
History
Archeology
100 Philosophy
Literature and Literary Theory
1208 Literature and Literary Theory
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Analogy
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
10092 Institute of Philosophy
Language and Linguistics
060104 history
Consistency (negotiation)
0601 history and archaeology
1205 Classics
Classics
Existence of God
1203 Language and Linguistics
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Ontological argument
Literature
business.industry
Philosophy
Interpretation (philosophy)
06 humanities and the arts
Immortality
SOCRATES
3310 Linguistics and Language
060302 philosophy
1204 Archeology (arts and humanities)
business
Soul
1202 History
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1568525X and 00267074
- Volume :
- 74
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mnemosyne
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7322add63efa8a7040bde73649f038b0