This book contains the complete Greek text of Plato's Ion, an English translation of it, and an in depth analysis. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of poetry as a whole, that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the ...
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This book contains the complete Greek text of Plato's Ion, an English translation of it, and an in depth analysis. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of poetry as a whole, that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the interchange called dialectic. Dialectic is between people, so that it has an essentially social as well as an intellectual dimension, and it is while the conversation continues that philosophy fully exists; it lives in the performance. Ion performs Homer, and Plato (or his reader) performs Socrates. There are similarities - for example, both have musical or metrical structures - but there are also crucial differences - Ion's performance of Homer has hearers; Plato's performance of Socrates has participants.
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Good. ix, [1], 394 pages. Note on the Greek Text. A Note on Ion's Text. Appendix: Vocabulary, Frequency of usage. Bibliography. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. The inscription reads for Roman, "The unexamined life is not worth living." as Socrates reminds us; he (and Plato) also remind us that philosophy (the love of wisdom) is not a subject but a way of life. with all best wishes John Bremer May 2006. The cover has some wear and soiling. This book contains the complete Greek text of Plato's Ion, an English translations of it, and an in-depth analysis. John Bremer (1927-2015) was an educator and Socratic philosopher. In 2008 he retired as a senior scholar teaching at Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he was Professor of Humanities and Director of the college's Humanities and Freedom Institute. Professor Bremer founded Cambridge College in 1971 when it was then known as the "Institute of Open Education". After retirement he lived in Vermont, where he continued his research and writing. In the 1960s Professor Bremer gained international recognition for creating the Parkway Program, in Philadelphia, the first School Without Walls as documented in a book by the same name. The school was featured in Time Magazine in its March 23, 1970 edition. He was Killam Senior Fellow at Dalhousie University in Halifax and later Commissioner of Education for British Columbia, in 1973. In 1975, he founded the Institute of Socratic Study where Bremer was its director until he moved to Australia in 1980 to found the Education Supplement for The Australian newspaper. The Ion is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues and yet it raises two most critical questions. First, is there an art of poetry as a whole, that is, is there an art of words and, if so, what is its nature? All acts of language are poetic, and philosophy is impossible without them. Thus arises the second question: does philosophy itself exist only in the use of words, in the question and answer, in the interchange called dialectic. Dialectic is between people, so that it has an essentially social as well as an intellectual dimension, and it is while the conversation continues that philosophy fully exists; it lives in the performance. Ion performs Homer, and Plato (or his reader) performs Socrates. There are similarities-for example, both have musical or metrical structures-but there are also crucial differences-Ion's performance of Homer has hearers; Plato's performance of Socrates has participants.
