Book contents
- Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle
- Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Traditional Theoria
- Chapter 2 Literary and Philosophical Texts on Theoria
- Chapter 3 Plato’s Contribution to Theoria
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Refinement of Theoria
- Chapter 5 Theoria and Its Objects
- Chapter 6 The Value of Theoria
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
Chapter 2 - Literary and Philosophical Texts on Theoria
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
- Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle
- Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Traditional Theoria
- Chapter 2 Literary and Philosophical Texts on Theoria
- Chapter 3 Plato’s Contribution to Theoria
- Chapter 4 Aristotle’s Refinement of Theoria
- Chapter 5 Theoria and Its Objects
- Chapter 6 The Value of Theoria
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
Summary
The second chapter examines literary and historical sources writing about theoria, including those by Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Euripides, as a means of providing the larger cultural background against which Plato's use of theoria must be considered. Two analogies to traditional theoria are here considered, that of pilgrimage and cultural sight-seeing, both of which contribute elements to the distinctive intellectual conception of theoria developed by Plato and Aristotle with which the chapter concludes.
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- Searching for the Divine in Plato and AristotlePhilosophical Theoria and Traditional Practice, pp. 28 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021