Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Name: Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues
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ISBN: 9780226007748

ISBN-10: 022600774X

ISBN-13: 9780226007748

Edition: 2012

Authors: Catherine H. Zuckert

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Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterialPlato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 896
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.89" long x 0.19" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English