G R F Ferrari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G R F Ferrari |
| GIVEN NAMES | G R F |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrari |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARI G R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Entangled Embodiments
In the Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty dedicates many pages to the analysis of pathological cases, which seem to be assessed as merely negative phenomena that reinforce an extrinsic opposition with normal ones. This paper aims to clarify that Merleau-Ponty in effect challenges the able–disabled dichotomy by articulating an intentional analysis based on the perspective of being-in-the-world and proposing a differential understanding of …
Aristotle on Musical Catharsis and the Pleasure of a Good Story
The pleasure attending dramatic catharsis, according to Aristotle, is a pleasure the audience feels when the tension that has been developing throughout the action of the play is released. Catharsis does not edify or improve us, whether morally or intellectually: it is an aesthetic satisfaction. Crucial to the argument is a new interpretation of Politics 8.7, where musical catharsis is taken to belong, not to the realm of ‘entertainment’, παιδιά,…
Socratic Irony as Pretence
There is a very obvious feature of Socratic irony that has never the less not received the discussion it merits, despite the fact that Socratic irony has been much discussed in recent years by specialists in ancient philosophy. The likely reason that its significance has been missed is that specialists in ancient philosophy are not in the habit of approaching irony as it is approached by contemporary linguists, psychologists, and philosophers of …
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more exp…
The Three-Part Soul
A full picture of the human soul emerges only gradually from the Republic. In Book 4 we come first upon a conventional enough distinction between calculation and desire, which under pressure from the correspondence between the microcosm of the just individual and the macrocosm of the just society, with its three different classes, is complicated by the addition of a third element, the element of "high spirit" (thumos). At this stage the three ele…
Curing by Killing
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Plato, Republic 9.585c–d
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Platonic love
Plato does not have a comprehensive theory of love. Rather, he diverts certain received opinions about love to his own peculiarly philosophic ends. He is not interested in telling us what it would be like to live with someone as a platonic lover. Or so I shall argue, from a reading of the Symposium and the Phaedrus. I shall ignore the social regulations for sexuality proposed in the Republic (III 402d-403c, V 459-461) and the Laws (VIII 835c-842a…
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume cont…
Plato and poetry
The great challenge for any interpreter of Plato's views on poetry is to appreciate why he is so uncompromisingly hostile towards it. That he should seek to subordinate poetic to philosophic measures of expression and understanding is not in itself surprising. Philosophy has long had a need to keep poetry in its place - as Plato, alluding to the ‘ancient quarrel’ between the two, was among the first to tell us (Rep. 10.607b). But what is striking…
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism
Listening to the Cicadas
Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus
Listening to the Cicadas
This full-length study of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, now in paperback, is written in the belief that such concerted scrutiny of a single dialogue is an important part of the project of understanding Plato so far as possible 'from the inside' - of gaining a feel for the man's philosophy. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless co…
Plato, Republic 9.585c–d
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Listening to the Cicadas
This full-length study of Plato's dialogue Phaedrus, now in paperback, is written in the belief that such concerted scrutiny of a single dialogue is an important part of the project of understanding Plato so far as possible 'from the inside' - of gaining a feel for the man's philosophy. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless co…
Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus
Plato and poetry
The great challenge for any interpreter of Plato's views on poetry is to appreciate why he is so uncompromisingly hostile towards it. That he should seek to subordinate poetic to philosophic measures of expression and understanding is not in itself surprising. Philosophy has long had a need to keep poetry in its place - as Plato, alluding to the ‘ancient quarrel’ between the two, was among the first to tell us (Rep. 10.607b). But what is striking…
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Surveying the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary history, theory, and criticism
Listening to the Cicadas
Platonic love
Plato does not have a comprehensive theory of love. Rather, he diverts certain received opinions about love to his own peculiarly philosophic ends. He is not interested in telling us what it would be like to live with someone as a platonic lover. Or so I shall argue, from a reading of the Symposium and the Phaedrus. I shall ignore the social regulations for sexuality proposed in the Republic (III 402d-403c, V 459-461) and the Laws (VIII 835c-842a…
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume cont…
Plato, Republic 9.585c–d
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic
This Companion provides a comprehensive account of this outstanding work, which remains among the most frequently read works of Greek philosophy, indeed of Classical antiquity in general. The sixteen essays, by authors who represent various academic disciplines, bring a spectrum of interpretive approaches to bear in order to aid the understanding of a wide-ranging audience, from first-time readers of the Republic who require guidance, to more exp…
The Three-Part Soul
A full picture of the human soul emerges only gradually from the Republic. In Book 4 we come first upon a conventional enough distinction between calculation and desire, which under pressure from the correspondence between the microcosm of the just individual and the macrocosm of the just society, with its three different classes, is complicated by the addition of a third element, the element of "high spirit" (thumos). At this stage the three ele…
Curing by Killing
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Socratic Irony as Pretence
There is a very obvious feature of Socratic irony that has never the less not received the discussion it merits, despite the fact that Socratic irony has been much discussed in recent years by specialists in ancient philosophy. The likely reason that its significance has been missed is that specialists in ancient philosophy are not in the habit of approaching irony as it is approached by contemporary linguists, psychologists, and philosophers of …
Aristotle on Musical Catharsis and the Pleasure of a Good Story
The pleasure attending dramatic catharsis, according to Aristotle, is a pleasure the audience feels when the tension that has been developing throughout the action of the play is released. Catharsis does not edify or improve us, whether morally or intellectually: it is an aesthetic satisfaction. Crucial to the argument is a new interpretation of Politics 8.7, where musical catharsis is taken to belong, not to the realm of ‘entertainment’, παιδιά,…
Entangled Embodiments
In the Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty dedicates many pages to the analysis of pathological cases, which seem to be assessed as merely negative phenomena that reinforce an extrinsic opposition with normal ones. This paper aims to clarify that Merleau-Ponty in effect challenges the able–disabled dichotomy by articulating an intentional analysis based on the perspective of being-in-the-world and proposing a differential understanding of …
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