Gestalten: A Resource for Comparative Philosophy?
Rohan Sikri (University of Georgia) on the burden and promise of comparative philosophy. Read more
Rohan Sikri (University of Georgia) on the burden and promise of comparative philosophy. Read more
Plato’s Four Muses reconstructs Plato’s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato’s most self-referential dialogue, and Plato’s reference to four Muses in Phaedrus 259c–d is read as a hint at the “ingredients” of philosophical discourse, which turns out to be a form of provocatively old-fashioned mousikê. Andrea Capra maintains that Socrates’s conversion to “demotic”—as opposed to metaphorical—music… Read more