Description |
1 online resource (xii, 137 pages) |
Contents |
Chapter 1 THE JOY OF READING PLATO -- chapter 2 THE READER PARTICIPATES -- chapter 3 AN EXAMPLE OF INDIVIDUAL RECEPTION -- chapter 4 POSSIBLE MISTAKEN ATTITUDES ON THE PART OF THE READER -- chapter 5 ONE DOES NOT SEE WHAT ONE DOES NOT KNOW -- chapter 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES -- chapter 7 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS -- chapter 8 FOR WHOM IS PLATO WRITING? -- chapter 9 DOES A PLATONIC DIALOGUE SPEAK WITH SEVERAL VOICES? -- chapter 10 AN ANCIENT THEORY OF INTERPRETATION -- chapter 11 THE INTERPRETATION OF SIMONIDES IN THE PROTAGORAS -- chapter 12 THE CRITIQUE OF WRITING IN THE PHAEDRUS -- chapter 13 THE DEFINITION OF THE PHILOSOPHER BASED ON HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS WRITINGS -- chapter 14 The meaning of t???te?a -- chapter 15 SUPPORT FOR THE LOGOS IN THE DIALOGUES -- chapter 16 THE ASCENT TO THE PRINCIPLES AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL COMMUNICATION -- chapter 17 SOME GAPS -- chapter 18 THE DOCTRINE OF ANAMNESIS AND DIALECTIC IN THE EUTHYDEMUS -- chapter 19 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLUSIONS FOR READING PLATO -- chapter 20 Plato's dramatic technique: Some examples -- chapter 21 IRONY -- chapter 22 MYTH -- chapter 23 MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE WITH IMAGINARY PARTNERS -- chapter 24 The characteristics of the dialogues: What they really mean -- chapter 25 HOW AND WHY THE DIALOGUE-FORM HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD -- chapter 26 THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ESOTERICISM AND SECRECY -- chapter 27 PLATO'S CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE OBJECTIVES OF THE DIALOGUES |
Summary |
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues which will be invaluable to any student of Plato's philosophy |
Notes |
Originally published: Platon lesen. Stuttgart : Verlag frommann-holzboog, 1993 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-130) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Plato. Dialogues.
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SUBJECT |
Platon, (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation. ram |
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Dialogues (Plato) fast |
Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
98034035 |
ISBN |
0203981006 |
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9780203981009 |
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9780415189835 |
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0415189837 |
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9780415189842 |
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0415189845 |
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1280253622 |
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9781280253621 |
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9786610253623 |
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6610253625 |
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1134656505 |
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9781134656509 |
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