Lehman / Weinman The Parthenon and Liberal Education

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6843-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Discusses the importance of the early history of Greek mathematics to education and civic life through a study of the Parthenon and dialogues of Plato.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehman, Geoff

Weinman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking the Parthenon and Liberal Arts Education Together

Part I. Plato on Dialectic and the Problem-Based Study of Mathematics

1. Dialectic and the Mathematical Arts in Republic (9.587b–588a): Philolaus’s Scale and the Final Bout between the Just and Unjust Souls

2. Dialectic and the Mathematical Arts in Timaeus (35b–36c): Philolaus’s Scale in the Construction of the World-Soul

3. Platonic Dialectic, Pythagorean Harmonics, and Liberal Arts Education

Part II. Harmonia and Symmetria of the Parthenon

4. The Parthenon and the Musical Scale

5. The Corner Problem

6. Refinements and the Question of Dialectic

Afterword

Appendix A
Pythagorean Musical Ratios

Appendix B
Principal Measurements of the Parthenon

Appendix C
Elements of the Doric Order

Appendix D
Ground Plan of the Parthenon

Appendix E
Glossary of Technical Terms

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Lehman is on the faculty of Art History at Bard College Berlin. Michael Weinman is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin and the author of Language, Time, and Identity in Woolf's The Waves: The Subject in Empire's Shadow and Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics.