The Argument of the Action: Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy

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Pub. Date: 2000-08-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod'sTheogony,Homer'sIliad,and Greek tragedy, of eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle'sMetaphysics.These essays, some never before published, others difficult to find, span four decades of his work and document its impressive range. Benardete's philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground that makes this collection a whole. The key, suggested by his reflections on Leo Strauss in the last piece, lies in the question of how to read Plato. Benardete's way is characterized not just by careful attention to the literary form that separates doctrine from dialogue, and speeches from deed; rather, by following the dynamic of these differences, he uncovers the argument that belongs to the dialogue as a whole. The "turnaround" such an argument undergoes bears consequences for understanding the dialogue as radical as the conversion of the philosopher in Plato's image of the cave. Benardete's original interpretations are the fruits of this discovery of the "argument of the action."

Author Biography

Seth Benardete (1930–2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He is the author of Plato’s Laws: The Discovery of Being, and translated Aeschylus’ The Persians and The Suppliant Maidens, all published by The University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction ix
The First Crisis in First Philosophy
3(12)
Achilles and the Iliad
15(19)
The Aristeria of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad
34(28)
The Furies of Aeschylus
62(9)
Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
71(13)
Euripides' Hippolytus
84(15)
On Greek Tragedy
99(47)
Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus
146(21)
On Plato's Symposium
167(19)
Protagoras's Myth and Logos
186(12)
On Plato's Lysis
198(33)
On Interpreting Plato's Charmides
231(26)
Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition
257(20)
On Plato's Phaedo
277(20)
Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos
297(26)
On Plato's Sophist
323(31)
The Plan of Plato's Statesman
354(22)
On the Timaeus
376(20)
On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A
396(11)
Strauss on Plato
407(12)
Selected Works 419(4)
Seth Benardete
Index 423

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