Emotions in Plato.

Intro -- Emotions in Plato -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Why Plato Comes First -- Part 1: For a Taxonomy of Plato's Emotions -- 1 Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato's Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance -- 2 The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato's Critique of Poetry -- 3 Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation -- 4 Emotions in Context: "Risk" as Condition for Emotion -- Part 2: Plato's Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality -- 5 Emotions and Rationality in the Timaeus (Ti. 42a-b, 69c-72e) -- 6 On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition -- 7 Plato's Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato's Laws -- 8 The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus -- 9 Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions -- Part 3: The Ethical and Political Value of Plato's Emotions -- 10 The Notion of φθόνος in Plato -- 11 On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d-50e) -- 12 Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato's Republic -- 13 Shame and Virtue in Plato's Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet -- 14 Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato's Phaedrus -- 15 Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development -- 16 Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue -- 17 Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato's Laws -- Afterword The Invention of Emotion? -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Relevant Passages -- Index of Subjects.

Emotions in Plato, through a detailed analysis of emotions such as shame, anger, fear, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship, offers a fresh account of the role of emotions in Plato's psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory.

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