Plato's World Man's Place in the Cosmos

Name: Plato's World Man's Place in the Cosmos
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ISBN: 9780226121222

ISBN-10: 0226121224

ISBN-13: 9780226121222

Edition: 1997

Authors: Joseph Cropsey

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In this culmination of a lifetime's study, Joseph Cropsey examines the crucial relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues--Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo--in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is often unreasonable, and populated by human beings unaided by gods and dealt with equivocally by nature. Masterfully leading the reader through the seven scenes of the drama, Cropsey shows how they are, to an astonishing degree, concerned…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/9/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Protagoras



Theaetetus



Euthyphro



Sophist



Statesman



Apology of Socrates



Crito



Phaedo Selective


Index of Names