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200 10$aMyth and philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato /$fKathryn A. Morgan$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000.
215   $a1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 292-301) and indexes.
327   $g1.$tIntroduction --$g2.$tTheoretical issues.$tTextualisation and the rise of philosophy.$tFrom mythos to logos?$tSome theoretical implications --$g3.$tSome Presocratics.$tThe exclusionary gesture: Xenophanes, Herakleitos, and Empedokles.$tAllegory and rationalisation.$tParmenides --$g4.$tThe sophists and their contemporaries.$tPhilology and exegesis.$tMythological displays --$g5.$tThe Protagoras: Platonic myth in the making.$tProtagoras' 'Great Speech'.$tWhy mythos? Structure and assumptions.$tSokrates and Prometheus.$tConclusion: Sophistic versus Platonic myth --$g6.$tThe range of Platonic myth.$tProblems of vocabulary, problems of selection.$tCategories of Platonic myth.$tExhortation, play, and childishness.$tMyth and the limits of language.
330   $aThis book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is found to be more extensive and programmatic than has been recognized. The story of philosophy's relationship with myth is that of its relationship with literary and social convention. The intellectuals studied here wanted to reformulate popular ideas about cultural authority and they achieved this goal by manipulating myth. Their self-conscious use of myth creates a self-reflective philosophic sensibility and draws attention to problems inherent in different modes of linguistic representation. Much of the reception of Greek philosophy stigmatizes myth as 'irrational'. Such an approach ignores the important role played by myth in Greek philosophy, not just as a foil but as a mode of philosophical thought. The case studies in this book reveal myth deployed as a result of methodological reflection, and as a manifestation of philosophical concerns.
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