| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) |
| Contents |
Preliminaries: reading Plato -- Introduction: The simile of the cave in the Republic -- The Apology: Socrates' defence, Plato's manifesto -- The Phaedo: Socrates' defence continued -- 'Examining myself and others', I: knowledge and soul in Charmides, First Alcibiades, Meno, Republic, Euthyphro, Phaedrus -- The moral psychology of the Gorgias -- 'Examining myself and others', II: soul, the excellences and the 'longer road' in the Republic -- Interlude: a schedule of the genuine dialogues -- Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, I: knowledge and belief in Book V -- Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, II: the limits of knowledge -- The Theaetetus, and the preferred Socratic-Platonic account of knowledge -- The form of the good and the good: the Republic in conversation with other (pre-Republic) dialogues -- Republic and Timaeus: the status of Timaeus' account of the physical universe -- Plato on the art of writing and speaking (logoi): the Phaedrus -- Epilogue: What is Platonism? |
| Summary |
Major reassessment by a senior scholar of the whole of Plato's work and philosophical approach |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato
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Plato -- Writing skill
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Plato -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Plato fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Filosofie.
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Dialogen.
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Retorica.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511367878 |
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