2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
General Research on the Philosophical Functions and Meanings of the Mythos (Myth) in Plato's Dialogues
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19520034
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKAZAWA Tsutomu Kansai University, 文学部, 教授 (10241283)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 哲学 / 西洋古典 / プラトン / ミュートス / 神話 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to analyze comprehensively the philosophical functions and meanings of Plato's mythos (myth), which is Plato's usual philosophical method. To achieve this purpose, I first categorized Plato's mythos into two types, i.e., 'the eschatological mythos' and 'the cosmological mythos'. In the first step of research, I analyzed each dialogue in which the arguments of mythos emerge one by one. In the second step, I considered the philosophical functions of mythos in each philosophical theme. In the third step, I tried to make clear the general role of mythos in Plato's philosophical method.
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