{"product_id":"ascent-to-the-beautiful-plato-the-teacher-and-the-pre-republic-dialogues-from-protagoras-to-symposium-9781793615954","title":"Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. Although published last, this book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught—and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum—Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Plato the Teacher and Reading Order\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Schleiermacher and Plato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Protagoras as Gateway\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§1. Protagoras before Alcibiades\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§2. Xenophon before Plato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§3. Taking the Measure of Protagoras\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§4. Interpreting the Misinterpretation of Simonides\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The Elementary Dialogues: the Alcibiades dyad and Lovers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§5. The Εὖ Πράττειν Fallacy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§6. The More Perfect Mirror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§7. Between Alcibiades and Lovers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Hippias Major: Between Protagoras and Symposium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§8. Reading Order and Authenticity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§9. Plato’s pons asinorum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§10. Deceiving with the Double \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Musical Dialogues: Hippias Minor, Ion, and Menexenus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§11. Deception Defended?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§12. Inspired Interpretation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§13. Rhetoric Rejected?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Symposium as τέλος\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§14. Integrating Symposium\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§15. History and Tragedy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§16. Alcestis, Codrus, and Achilles \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e§17. Catching Sight of the Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Imagining Plato’s Academy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex locorum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex verborum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042636169559,"sku":"9781793615954","price":131.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793615954.jpg?v=1750954949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ascent-to-the-beautiful-plato-the-teacher-and-the-pre-republic-dialogues-from-protagoras-to-symposium-9781793615954","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}