Panos Dimas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4493738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Panos Dimas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Panos |
| FAMILY NAME | Dimas |
| SIGNATURE | DIMAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion
Two Ways in which Pleasures can be False: Philebus 36c–42c
Chapter 8 examines two ways in which Plato in the Philebus claims that pleasures can be false. The common interpretation of the first way—which occupies the main part of the chapter—comes in two versions: (1) if the proposition following the “ that ” in “I’m pleased that you’re coming” is false (viz. it turns out that you don’t come) then so is my pleasure; (2) my pleasure is false if I am not pleased when you do come and was mistaken in my belie…
Plato's Philebus: A Philosophical Discussion
"The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. The Philebushad a far greater influence on Aristotle's ethics than the frequently studied Republic - yet historians of philosophical ethics have relatively neglected it and existing commentaries tend to emphas…
Euthyphro's Thesis Revisited
It has been an interpretative dogma to condemn Euthyphro's attempt to account for piety in terms of the gods' wishes as one totally repudiated by Socrates, and in itself untenable. Still at 15c8-9 Socrates expresses some scepticism about whether his refutation of Euthyphro's original account of piety in terms of what the gods love has established that it must be abandoned altogether. He then goes on to say that he and Euthyphro ought to investiga…
Recollecting Forms in the Phaedo
According to an interpretation that has dominated the literature, the traditional interpretation as I call it, the recollection argument aims at establishing the thesis that our learning in this life consists in recollecting knowledge the soul acquired before being born into a body, or thesis R, by using the thesis that there exist forms, thesis F, as a premise. These entities, the forms, are incorporeal, immutable, and transcendent in the sense …
Happiness in the Euthydemus
Departing on a demonstration which aims to show to young Cleinias how one ought to care about wisdom and virtue, Socrates asks at 278e2 whether people want to do well (ευ πραττειν). Eυ πραττειν is ambiguous. It can mean being happy and prospering, or doing what is right and doing it well. Socrates will later exploit this ambiguity, but at this point he uses this expression merely to announce his conviction that every human being (pathological cas…
Happiness in the Euthydemus
Departing on a demonstration which aims to show to young Cleinias how one ought to care about wisdom and virtue, Socrates asks at 278e2 whether people want to do well (ευ πραττειν). Eυ πραττειν is ambiguous. It can mean being happy and prospering, or doing what is right and doing it well. Socrates will later exploit this ambiguity, but at this point he uses this expression merely to announce his conviction that every human being (pathological cas…
Happiness in the Euthydemus
Departing on a demonstration which aims to show to young Cleinias how one ought to care about wisdom and virtue, Socrates asks at 278e2 whether people want to do well (ευ πραττειν). Eυ πραττειν is ambiguous. It can mean being happy and prospering, or doing what is right and doing it well. Socrates will later exploit this ambiguity, but at this point he uses this expression merely to announce his conviction that every human being (pathological cas…
Recollecting Forms in the Phaedo
According to an interpretation that has dominated the literature, the traditional interpretation as I call it, the recollection argument aims at establishing the thesis that our learning in this life consists in recollecting knowledge the soul acquired before being born into a body, or thesis R, by using the thesis that there exist forms, thesis F, as a premise. These entities, the forms, are incorporeal, immutable, and transcendent in the sense …
Euthyphro's Thesis Revisited
It has been an interpretative dogma to condemn Euthyphro's attempt to account for piety in terms of the gods' wishes as one totally repudiated by Socrates, and in itself untenable. Still at 15c8-9 Socrates expresses some scepticism about whether his refutation of Euthyphro's original account of piety in terms of what the gods love has established that it must be abandoned altogether. He then goes on to say that he and Euthyphro ought to investiga…
Two Ways in which Pleasures can be False: Philebus 36c–42c
Chapter 8 examines two ways in which Plato in the Philebus claims that pleasures can be false. The common interpretation of the first way—which occupies the main part of the chapter—comes in two versions: (1) if the proposition following the “ that ” in “I’m pleased that you’re coming” is false (viz. it turns out that you don’t come) then so is my pleasure; (2) my pleasure is false if I am not pleased when you do come and was mistaken in my belie…
Plato's Philebus: A Philosophical Discussion
"The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology. The Philebushad a far greater influence on Aristotle's ethics than the frequently studied Republic - yet historians of philosophical ethics have relatively neglected it and existing commentaries tend to emphas…
Plato's Statesman: A Philosophical Discussion
Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · Form of the Good (2 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (2 works)