Works by William H. F. Altman
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- Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic.William H. F. Altman -2012 - Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.The pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student, is the subject of Plato the Teacher. “The crisis of the Republic” refers to the decisive moment in his central dialogue when philosopher-readers realize that Plato’s is challenging them to choose justice by going back down into the dangerous Cave of political life for the sake of the greater Good, as both Socrates and Cicero did.
- The Guardians on Trial: The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues From Euthyphro to Phaedo.William H. F. Altman -2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.In this book, William H. F. Altman argues that it is not order of composition but reading order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and shows why Plato’s decision to interpolate the notoriously “late” Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters.
- Plato and Demosthenes: recovering the old academy.William H. F. Altman -2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes-universally regarded as Plato's student in antiquity-and Plato's other Athenian students in order to add external and historical evidence for Plato's original curriculum.
- Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium.William H. F. Altman -2020 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.This book is a study of Plato’s most elementary dialogues, arranged in relation to Reading Order as opposed to order of composition. Beginning with the theatrical Protagoras and reaching a mountaintop in Symposium, the dialogues between them—Alcibiades, Lovers, Hippias, Ion, and Menexenus—introduce the student to both philosophy and Platonism.
- The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues From Timaeus to Theaetetus.William H. F. Altman -2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.In this book, William H. F. Altman considers the pedagogical connections behind the post-Republic dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus in the context of their Reading Order.
- The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism.William H. F. Altman -2011 - Lexington Books, a Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.The German Stranger provides a guide to Leo Strauss that situates his thought in the context of National Socialism; by destroying any middle ground between 'Athens' and 'Jerusalem, ' Strauss undermined modernity's secular bulwark against political theology. Once National Socialism is understood as an atheistic religion re-enacted by post-Revelation 'philosophers, ' the German avatar of Plato's Athenian Stranger can be recognized as its principal theoreticia.
- Leo Strauss on ''German Nihilism'': Learning the Art of Writing.William H. F. Altman -2007 -Journal of the History of Ideas 68 (4):587-612.The year Leo Strauss published "Persecution and the Art of Writing" (1941), he prepared a lecture ("German Nihilism") that he never published. An analysis of this lecture shows that Strauss hadn't fully mastered the art of writing he'd discovered in others: his secrets are too exposed. In the context of "German Nihilism," it becomes clear that "Persecution and the Art of Writing" is about liberal persecution of authoritarianism, no the reverse, as liberals would assume. In response to recent apologias presenting (...) Strauss as a liberal who didn't "write between the lines," a Strauss-style reading of "German Nihilism" disproves both claims. (shrink)
- A Brief Prehistory of Philosophical Paraconsistency.William H. F. Altman -2010 -Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 14 (1):1-14.In celebration of Newton da Costa’s place in the history of paraconsistency, this paper considers the use and abuse of deliberate self-contradiction. Beginning with Parmenides, developed by Plato, and continued by Cicero, an ancient philosophical tradition used deliberately paraconsistent discourses to reveal the truth. In modern times, decisionism has used deliberate self-contradiction against Judeo-Christian revelation. • DOI:10.5007/1808-1711.2010v14n1p1.
- The Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy: Platonis Aemulus and the Invention of Cicero.William H. F. Altman -2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.This book argues that Cicero deserves to be spoken of with more respect and to be studied with greater care. Using Plato’s influence on Cicero’s life and writings as a clue, Altman reveals the ineffable combination of qualities—courage, originality, intelligence, sparkling wit, subtlety, deep respect for his teacher, and deadly seriousness of purpose—that enabled Cicero not only to revive Platonism, but also to rival Plato himself.
- Xenophon and Plato’s Meno.William H. F. Altman -2022 -Ancient Philosophy 42 (1):33-47.Not only was it a reference to Ismenias the Theban (Men. 90a4-5) that allowed nineteenth-century scholars to establish a date of composition for Plato’s Meno on the basis of Xenophon’s Hellenica but beginning with “Meno the Thessalian” himself, immortalized as a scoundrel in Xenophon’s Anabasis, each of the four characters in Plato’s dialogue is shown to have a Xenophontic resonance, thus revealing Meno to be Plato’s tombeau de Xénophon.
- Xenophon, the Old Oligarch, and Alcibiades.William H. F. Altman -2022 -Polis 39 (2):261-278.Modifying the conjecture of Wolfgang Helbig by means of the distinction between Xenophon and his various narrators introduced by Benjamin McCloskey, this paper uses the insights of Hartvig Frisch to show how drawing a distinction between the first-person speaker in pseudo-Xenophon’s Constitution of the Athenians and its author indicates that the former is Alcibiades and the latter is Xenophon himself.
- The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon’s Memorabilia. By Thomas L. Pangle.William H. F. Altman -2019 -Ancient Philosophy 39 (1):224-229.
- Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues From Symposium to Republic.William H. F. Altman -2018 - Lanham: Lexington Books.This study reconsiders Plato’s “Socratic” dialogues—Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno—as parts of an integrated curriculum. By privileging reading order over order of composition, a Platonic pedagogy teaching that the Idea of the Good is a greater object of philosophical concern than what benefits the self is spotlighted.
- A Written Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical Politics, by Yelena Baraz.William H. F. Altman -2013 -Ancient Philosophy 33 (2):454-457.
- Cicero on Politics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic and Laws (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Jed W. Atkins.William H. F. Altman -2015 -Ancient Philosophy 35 (1):241-243.
- Cicero’s Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy.William H. F. Altman -2018 -Ancient Philosophy 38 (1):225-229.
- David Corey and Plato’s Sophist.William H. F. Altman -2016 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (3):371-372.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich.William H. F. Altman -2012 - Lanham: Lexington Books.By subjecting Nietzsche to a Platonic critique, author William H. F. Altman punctures his “pose of untimeliness” while making use of Nietzsche’s own aphoristic style of presentation. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for a Prussian King—is thereby revealed to be the representative philosopher of the Second Reich.
- Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration.William H. F. Altman -2012 - Lexington Books.In a new approach to a vexing problem in modern philosophy, William H. F. Altman shows that Heidegger’s decision to join the Nazis in 1933 can only be understood in the context of his complicated relationship with the Great War.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties. Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Indexes, written by Benjamin Patrick Newton.William H. F. Altman -2018 -Polis 35 (1):306-311.
- Parmenidean pedagogy in Plato's Timaeus.William H. F. Altman -2012 -Dissertatio 36:131-156.No livro Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert olha para o Timeu de Platão de maneira renovada e revive implicitamente a tese de A. E. Taylor, segundo a qual Timeu não fala por Platão. Taylor devotou seu escrupuloso comentário de 1927 para construir esse argumento, o qual, porém, encalhou diante da questão colocada dez anos depois por F. M. Cornford, no livro Plato’s Cosmology : “Qual poderia ter sido o seu motivo?” O motivo de Platão era tanto pedagógico quanto parmenídico: assim como (...) a deusa expõe o peregrino à “Via da Opinião” depois da revelação da “Verdade”, assim também o Timeu de Platão expõe o leitor a um relato poético de uma cosmologia baseada na visão – outro kosmo/j e0pe/wn a0pathlo/j – depois da revelação, feita na República V-VII, da ontologia platônica puramente inteligível. (shrink)
- Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism.William H. F. Altman -2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.With both the Roman Empire and contemporary scholarship as backdrop, this book contrasts the Imperial Platonism of Plotinus with Plato's own by distinguishing one as a master enlightening disciples, and the other as an Athenian teacher who taught students to discover the truth for themselves in the Academy.
- [Recensão a] Plato and the Post- ‑Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature. By Charles H. Kahn.William H. F. Altman -2013 -Plato Journal 13:111-114.No categories
- Review essay: Pyrrhic Victories and a Trojan Horse in the Strauss wars.William H. F. Altman -2009 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (2):294-323.A careful reading of Harvey C. Mansfield's Manlines s and the recent translation of Daniel Tanguay's Leo Strauss; une biographie intellectuelle reveals that neither text supports the view that Leo Strauss was a harmless if qualified friend of liberal democracy. Key Words: Leo Strauss • Straussians • Nietzsche • Carl Schmitt • Heidegger • National Socialism • Liberalism • Redlichkeit • Hobbes • Hegel • Viktor Trivas.
- Reflecting with the Heidegger case.William H. F. Altman -2019 - In Gegory Fried,Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield International.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Rereading Xenophon’s Cyropaedia.William H. F. Altman -2022 -Ancient Philosophy 42 (2):335-352.In suggesting that its last chapter’s purpose is to provoke the reader to begin reconsidering and thus rereading the book they have just read, this article attempts to negotiate the interpretive quarrel as whether Xenophon’s Cyropaedia deserves a “sunny” reading—in which Cyrus straightforwardly embodies Xenophon’s own political ideals—or a more critical “dark” one, that separates the author from his protagonist. To help us get the most advantage from the paideia his book was intended to provide, Xenophon made a “sunny” first (...) reading plausible, but he also sowed in his text the kind of clues—especially with respect to pleonexia—that would reveal his full intentions only to those who reread his book. (shrink)
- Socrates and Divine Revelation by Lewis Fallis.William H. F. Altman -2019 -Review of Metaphysics 72 (3):597-598.
- Socrates in Plato’s Philebus.William H. F. Altman -2022 - In Claudia Marsico,Socrates and the Socratic Philosophies: Selected Papers from Socratica IV. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag. pp. 141-150.
- The Hindenburg Line of the Strauss wars.William H. F. Altman -2010 -Philosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (1):118-153.Bringing continental sensibilities and skill to his project, David Janssens has abandoned the line of defense heretofore used by North American intellectuals to shield Leo Strauss from criticism: Janssens wastes no time trying to prove Strauss was a liberal democrat, frankly admits his atheism, and emphasizes the continuity and European origins of his thought. Nevertheless committed to defending Strauss even at his most vulnerable points, Janssens is compelled to anchor his new defensive position on a misreading of what he calls (...) "an inconspicuous footnote" in Philosophie und Gesetz (1935). (shrink)
- The Missing Speech of the Absent Fourth: Reader Response and Plato’s Timaeus-Critias.William H. F. Altman -2013 -Plato Journal 13:7-26.Recent Plato scholarship has grown increasingly comfortable with the notion that Plato’s art of writing brings his readers into the dialogue, challenging them to respond to deliberate errors or lacunae in the text. Drawing inspiration from Stanley Fish’s seminal reading of Satan’s speeches in Paradise Lost, this paper considers the narrative of Timaeus as deliberately unreliable, and argues that the actively critical reader is “the missing fourth” with which the dialogue famously begins. By continuing Timaeus with Critias—a dialogue that ends (...) with a missing speech—Plato points to the kind of reader he expects: one who can answer Critias’ question : ὡς μὲν γὰρ οὐκ εὖ τὰ παρὰ σοῦ λεχθέντα εἴρηται, τίς ἂν ἐπιχειρήσειεν ἔμφρων λέγειν. (shrink)
- The relay race of virtue: Plato's debts to Xenophon.William H. F. Altman -2022 - Albany: SUNY Press.Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.
- Tullia’s Secret Shrine.William H. F. Altman -2008 -Ancient Philosophy 28 (2):373-393.
- Review Symposium of David Corey, The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues: SUNY Press, 2015.Avi I. Mintz,Anne-Marie Schultz,Samantha Deane,Marina McCoy,William H. F. Altman &David D. Corey -2017 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 37 (4):417-431.
- Elenctic therapy in Plato's gorgias - (b.) Kaiser streit und Kampf. Die verbalen angriffe gegen sokrates in Platons gorgias. (Palingenesia 125.) Pp. 256. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2021. Cased, €56. Isbn: 978-3-515-12859-9. [REVIEW]William H. F. Altman -2022 -The Classical Review 72 (2):453-455.
- Likeness and Likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato. By Jenny Bryan. [REVIEW]William H. F. Altman -2013 -Ancient Philosophy 33 (1):194-198.
- Socrates and Divine Revelation. [REVIEW]William H. F. Altman -2019 -Review of Metaphysics 72 (3).No categories
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