Interpreting Plato Socratically : Socrates and Justice / / by J. Angelo Corlett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300620803321
• Autore: Corlett J. Angelo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018
• ISBN: 3-319-77320-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2018.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 184
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Philology; Philosophy, Ancient; History of Philosophy; Classical Studies; Classical Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction,- Chapter 1: Interpreting Plato Socratically,- Chapter 2: Defending The Socratic Interpretation of Plato’s Dialogues -- Chapter 3: In Defense of Socratic Studies -- Chapter 4: Socrates and Distributive Justice -- Chapter 5: Legal Obligation in Plato’s Crito -- Chapter 6: The Socratic Roots of Retributivism -- Chapter 7: Socrates and Compensatory Justice -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Gerson on Cherniss On Aristotle On Plato -- Appendix II: The Concept of Art of Mimêsis in Plato’s Dialogues -- additional Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: J. Angelo Corlett’s new book, Interpreting Plato Socratically continues the critical discussion of the Platonic Question where Corlett’s book, Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues concluded. New arguments in favor of the Mouthpiece Interpretation of Plato’s works are considered and shown to be fallacious, as are new objections to some competing approaches to Plato’s works. The Platonic Question is the problem of how to approach and interpret Plato’s writings most of which are dialogues. How, if at all, can Plato’s beliefs, doctrines, theories and such be extracted from dialogues where there is no direct indication ; from Plato that his own views are even to be found therein? Most philosophers of Plato attempt to decipher from Plato’s texts seemingly all manner of ideas expressed by Socrates which they then attribute to Plato. They seek to ascribe to Plato particular views about justice, art, love, virtue, knowledge, and the like because, they believe, Socrates is Plato’s mouthpiece throughout the dialogues. But is such an approach justified? What are the arguments in favor of such an approach? Is there a viable alternative approach to Plato’s dialogues? In this rigorous account of the dominant approach to Plato’s dialogues, there is no room left for reasonable doubt about the problematic reasons given for the notion that Plato’s dialogues reveal either Plato’s or Socrates’ beliefs, doctrines or theories about substantive philosophical matters. Corlett’s approach to Plato’s dialogues is applied to a variety of passages throughout Plato’s works on a wide range of topics concerning justice. In-depth discussions of themes such as legal obligation, punishment and compensatory justice are clarified and with some surprising results. Plato’s works serve as a rich source of philosophical thinking about such matters. A central question in today’s Platonic studies is whether Socrates, or any other protagonist in the dialogues, presents views that the author wanted to assert or defend. Professor Corlett offers a detailed defense of his view that the role of Socrates is to raise questions rather than to provide the author’s answers to them. This defense is timely as intellectual historians consider the part played by Academic scholars centuries after Plato in systematizing Platonism. J. J. Mulhern, University of Pennsylvania.

Tuscarora : a history / / Anthony F.C. Wallace

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964571603321
• Autore: Wallace Anthony F. C. <1923->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012
• ISBN: 9781438444314; 1438444311
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Collana: Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building
• Disciplina: 305.897/55
• Soggetti: Tuscarora Indians - History; Tuscarora Indians - Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Tuscarora: A History""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prologue: Living in Historical Time""; ""Chapter 1: Welcome to Skaruâ€?re""; ""Our Visit in 1948â€?1949""; ""Landscape""; ""Fitting In""; ""The Rorschach Project""; ""Recording Tuscarora Texts""; ""Chapter 2: Tuscarora: Fifty Years Later""; ""The Bissell Family""; ""Orientation""; ""Changes and Persistence""; ""Diversity and Forbearance""; ""Gender Balance""; ""Churches and Spirituality""; ""Work and Play""; ""The World Off the Reserve""; ""Chapter 3: Tuscaroras in North Carolina: Peace, War, and Exodus""; ""The History Group""; ""First Encounters 1521â€?1650""""The Tuscarora War 1711â€?1713""; ""Migration and Dispersal""; ""The Communities at Onaquaga""; ""Factions""; ""Chapter 4: Policies of Accommodation""; ""The Success of the Family Farm""; ""Christian Missions versus the “Old Religionâ€?""; ""The Temperance Society""; ""Baptist Traditionalism""; ""Native Voices of Accommodation: Cusick, Johnson, Hewitt""; ""Combining the Best of Both Cultures""; ""Chapter 5: Ethnostress: Selves Lost and Found""; ""The Concept of Ethnostress""; ""The Denial of Reciprocity""; ""The Reservation Schools at Tuscarora""; ""The Thomas Indian School""""Coping with Ethnostress""; ""Chapter 6: Siege, Resistance, and Renewal""; ""Land Claims and the Doctrine of Discovery""; ""The Reservoir""; ""The Enduring Siege""; ""Voices of Resistance: Clinton Rickard, Ted Williams, Mad Bear""; ""Chapter 7: Family: Household, Clan, and the Womanâ€?s Line""; ""The Matrilineal ; Clan""; ""The Paternal Lineage""; ""Enrollment""; ""Marriage and Kinship Terminology""; ""Land and Kinship""; ""Genealogical Records""; ""Blood Quantum""; ""Chapter 8: Governance: Nation, Community, and Confederacy""; ""Nation and Sovereignty""; ""The Council of Chiefs""""The Business Council versus the Traditional Chiefsâ€? Council""; ""The Meetings of Clans and Clan Mothers""; ""The Haudenosaunee Confederacy""; ""Chapter 9: Preserving the Cycle of Life""; ""Growing Up Indian""; ""Creation and the Good Mind""; ""The Thanksgiving Address""; ""Environmentalism""; ""The Medicines and Spiritual Powers""; ""The Condolence Ceremony""; ""Preserving the Cycle of Life""; ""Epilogue: Saving the Seventh Generation""; ""In Memoriam: A Tribute to My Big Sister""; ""Notes on Sources""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Tuscarora is the comprehensive history of the small Iroquois Indian reservation community just north of Niagara Falls in western New York. The Tuscaroras consider themselves to be a sovereign nation, independent of the United States and the State of New York. They have preserved a system of social organization and ideal public values, along with the Tonawanda Seneca and the Onondagas that retains matrilineal clans, and a Council of Chiefs nominated by the clan matrons. Over the course of their existence, however, the Tuscarora have faced many struggles. Stemming from over sixty years of research, Anthony F. C. Wallace follows their story of overcoming war and loss of population, migration from North Carolina in the 1700s, the emotional trauma and social disorders resulting from discrimination and abusive conditions in residential boarding schools, and successful adaption to urban industrial society. Wallace weaves together historical detail, ethnography, and his own personal reflections to offer a unique and sweeping look at this fascinating group of people.