240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each... Read more
1. Musical structure in the Symposium 2. An emphatic pattern in the frame 3. Making the musical structure explicit 4. Parallel structure in the Euthyphro 5. Extracting doctrine from structure 6. Some implications
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Kennedy, J.B.
