| Description |
xiv, 560 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge companions |
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Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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| Contents |
Introduction to the study of Plato / Richard Kraut -- Plato : the intellectual background / T.H. Irwin -- Stylometry and chronology / Leonard Brandwood -- Socrates and the early dialogues / Terry Penner -- Mathematical method and philosophical truth / Ian Mueller -- Inquiry in the Meno / Gail Fine -- Plato and Greek religion / Michael L. Morgan -- Platonic love / G.R.F. Ferrari -- Plato's metaphysical epistemology / Nicholas P. White -- The defense of justice in Plato's Republic / Richard Kraut -- Plato on poetic creativity / Elizabeth Asmis -- Good-bye to the third man / Constance C. Meinwald -- Plato's Sophist on false statements / Michael Frede -- Disintegration and restoration : pleasure and pain in Plato's Philebus / Dorothea Frede -- Plato's later political thought / Trevor J. Saunders |
| Summary |
Fourteen specially-commissioned essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-529) and indexes |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Plato.
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Philosophers.
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| Author |
Kraut, Richard, 1944-
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Cambridge University Press.
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| LC no. |
92004991 |
| ISBN |
0521430186 |
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0521436109 |
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9780521430180 |
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9780521436106 |
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