Myth, image, dianoia: Situating the myth of Er on the Divided Line
Perennially, investigations into Plato's use of myths have hinged on a distinction between muthos and logos, from which logos is privileged as philosophical discourse, while muthoi are relegated to tools of persuasion for the non-philosophical. Focussing exclusively on the Republic, this thesis...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28117 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12395 |