Platonic Myth And Platonic Writing: A Philosophico-Literary Exploration

Dr. Zaslavsky rejects the common notion that what makes a myth in Plato a myth (as opposed to a speech or logos) is its truth value. Therefore, after an analysis of why Plato wrote as he did and a cataloguing and examination of every occurence of mythos and its derivatives in the Platonic corpus, he articulates the new linguistic and philosophical principle that a myth is a genetic or causal synagogic/synoptic account, in contradistinction to logos as a descriptive or calssificatory diairetic account. He tests this definition successfully through an examination of all those accounts in Plato that are explicitly designated as myths.

• | Author: Robert Zaslavsky
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1532906838
• | ISBN-13: 9781532906831