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South Atlantic Quarterly (1921) 20 (4): 349–359.
Published: 01 October 1921
...Geo. P. Wilson Why Did Plato Use Myths? Geo. P. Wilson The University of Wisconsin In attempting to show why Plato used so many myths in his dialogues and to justify this usage, I shall endeavor to be guided by the following restrictions: (1) to consider the historical con­ ditions and times when...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1945) 44 (3): 335–337.
Published: 01 July 1945
... with Plato: Poems . By Beach Joseph Warren . Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press , 1944 . Pp. 91 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Books 335 played prejudice. It has failed in both form and basic thinking. Such a situation is due in part to the American...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1937) 36 (1): 96–107.
Published: 01 January 1937
...Kurt Edward Rosinger Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 DESCENDANTS OF PLATO KURT EDWARD ROSINGER THE descendants of Plato are a strange little band of men who look back upon their progenitor with awe, admiration, and wistful envy. That Plato was great, that he still deserves...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1912) 11 (4): 377–382.
Published: 01 October 1912
...Albert M. Webb Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Poems of Occasions by Plato Tracy Durham Albert M. Webb Professor of Romance Languages in Trinity College In recent years there have appeared from the pen of a talented North Carolinian, Plato Tracy Durham, several poems that have...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (4): 725–755.
Published: 01 October 1989
...Ellie Ragland-Sullivan Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Ellie Ragland-Sullivan Plato s Symposium and the Lacanian Theory of Transference: Or, What Is Love? In the first ten meetings of his seminar On the Transference Lacan offered an innovative interpretation of Plato s...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (4): 751–764.
Published: 01 October 2009
... university. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Jeffrey T. Nealon The Economics of Academic Freedom, or Plato’s P & T Committee ​I want to talk about academic freedom in today’s corporate university by taking a long detour, spe...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (4): 613–630.
Published: 01 October 2005
...Stella Sandford 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Stella Sandford Thinking Sex Politically: Rethinking ‘‘Sex’’ in Plato’s Republic This essay is concerned with the category of sex, where sex means ‘‘sex difference as dis...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (4): 719–739.
Published: 01 October 2010
... to a spiritual level (Plato). But the church fathers taught that they must rise above intellectual contemplation to union with God through perfected desire. However, we cannot reach this union through our own efforts; God must reach graciously down to us. But when he does so, he reaches down into our entire...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2011) 110 (3): 621–644.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that indexical realism faces its obsolescence. However, the film provides a new representational metaphor through both its name and its depiction of three-dimensionality, namely, Plato's chora . The chora 's significance as a metaphysical figure—an unintelligible space that gives form to matter—erupts...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (1-2): 83–93.
Published: 01 January 1999
...Danielle Trudeau Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Danielle Trudeau Socrates Women Socrates, according to his disciples, was a model citizen and at the same time a sort of for­ eign body the State wanted to oust. Plato in large measure exploited this foreignness, partly attrib­...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 361–368.
Published: 01 July 1957
... as merely one way of living, and that not necessarily the best. By this view the Spartan system is freed of the judgments passed on it by Toynbee and the others and is seen as an unusual, but successful system. The great name of Plato is at the center of another lively controversy about the symbolic meaning...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 1998
... and execution of an indolent stone­ cutter who deliberately left no account of his life ranks among the formative events of the civili­ zation that came in so many ways to bear the mark of his influence for a simple reason. He had friends. Plato s Republic brings that sometime stone­ cutter together...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 301–317.
Published: 01 January 1989
... between the two can be rearticulated in the formula: Defense = Disease. Freud s argument in warning H. D. against engaging in defensive interventions significantly echoes the logic sounded centuries earlier by Plato in the Timaeus. Writing specifically about the wisdom of 306 Lee Edelman medical...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (1): 5–22.
Published: 01 January 1998
...Agnes Heller Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Agnes Heller The Beauty of Friendship The representative stories about eras told by Plato in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, to­ gether with a few other themes developed in other dialogues, became the narrative ground of beauty. Our...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1938) 37 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 April 1938
... not like to pen, as Plato did, a few pages capable of setting thousands brooding and speculating, age after age? There are numerous persons, however, in many parts of the globe, who refuse to accept Plato s story as mere fable, holding in­ stead that beneath it must be hidden truth of one kind or another...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (3): 390–391.
Published: 01 July 1976
... on Plato, W. K. C. Guthrie s great History of Greek Philosophy has now reached four volumes and well over two thousand pages. Immediately on publication of the first volume in 1962, Guthrie s History established itself as the preeminent work in English on ancient philosophy, the standard against which...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1965) 64 (2): 229–240.
Published: 01 April 1965
... Plato appears on the scene, we have mathematics as a flourishing, respectable discipline, offering something which can be learned and understood. Moreover, it is the only such discipline existing at the time. And in Plato we have the love affair between philosophy and mathematics in its most Philosophy...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 9–17.
Published: 01 January 2023
... this paradigm that we must free ourselves. I would now like to reflect upon two examples of a politics removed from the model of realization: Plato and Walter Benjamin. You all know the paradigm of the philosopher-king, which Plato puts at the center of his politics and which is usually considered...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (2): 233–234.
Published: 01 April 1981
..., Olney demon­ strates that the lines come together in such primal figures as Plato and beyond him to Empedocles, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras. Although, as Olney admits, the Perennial Philosophy did not have a clearly traceable origin, he chooses Pythagoras as the first important figure...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1923) 22 (4): 382–391.
Published: 01 October 1923
... add greatly to the value of this attractive volume. Allan H. Gilbert. 386 T he South Atlantic Quarterly The Religion of Plato. By Paul Elmer More. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1921. xii, 352 pp. My belief is that Greek literature, philosophic and religious, pagan and Christian, from Plato...