Knowing the Whole: Comments on Gill, “Plato’s Phaedrus and the Method of Hippocrates”

Modern Schoolman 80 (4):315-323 (2003)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Socrates suggests that no one can know the nature of soul without knowing the nature of the whole. The whole what? Gill proposes "the whole environment" in which the soul is active. I criticize this and argue for the old-fashioned reading of "the whole world."

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

ISBN(s)

00268402

DOI

10.5840/schoolman200380419

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,349

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Knowing the Whole: Comments on Gill, “Plato’s Phaedrus and the Method of Hippocrates”.Eric Brown - 2003 - Modern Schoolman 80 (4):315-323.
Plato’s Phaedrus and the Method of Hippocrates.Mary Louise Gill - 2003 - Modern Schoolman 80 (4):295-314.
PLATO, PHAEDRUS_- P. Ryan Plato's _Phaedrus. A Commentary for Greek Readers. Introduction by Mary Louise Gill. (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 47.) Pp. xxx + 344, map. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Paper, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8061-4259-3. [REVIEW]Edith Gwendolyn Nally - 2013 - The Classical Review 63 (2):360-361.
Aristotle on Substance. [REVIEW]Mary Louise Gill - 1993 - Ancient Philosophy 13 (1):209-212.
« Models In Plato’s Sophist And Statesman ».Mary-Louise Gill - 2006 - Plato Journal 6.
Reading Plato is like Solving a Jigsaw Puzzle: Mary-Louise Gill’s Philosophos A Discussion by Georgia Mouroutsou on Plato’s Missing Dialogue. [REVIEW]Georgia Mouroutsou - 2013 - Plato Journal 13:115-125.
A Much Disputed “Whole” at Phaedrus 270.Karel Thein - 2012 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 12 (2):139-152.
Comments On Charles.”.Mary Louise Gill - 1991 - Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 7 (1):262-269.
Design of the Exercise in Plato’s Parmenides.Mary Louise Gill - 2014 - Dialogue 53 (3):495-520.
Matter and Flux in Plato's Timaeus.Mary Louise Gill - 1987 - Phronesis 32 (1):34-53.
Plato's reception of parmenides. John A. Palmer.Mary Louise Gill - 2001 - Mind 110 (439):806-810.
Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue, by Mary Louise Gill.Charles H. Kahn - 2014 - Mind 123 (492):1191-1195.
Philosophos: Plato’s Missing Dialogue, by Mary Louise Gill.David Ambuel - 2014 - Ancient Philosophy 34 (2):425-432.
Mary Louise Gill and Paul Ryan, trans., Plato: Parmenides. [REVIEW]Richard J. Ketchum - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (6):398-399.
Parmenides. Plato, Mary Louise Gill & Paul Ryan - 1996 - Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co.. Edited by Mary Louise Gill & Paul Ryan.

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-03-29

Downloads
35 (#443,848)

6 months
10 (#257,583)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Eric Brown
Washington University in St. Louis

Citations of this work

Hippocrates at phaedrus 270c.Elizabeth Jelinek & Nickolas Pappas - 2020 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101 (3):409-430.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references