Cambridge Companion to Plato

Name: Cambridge Companion to Plato
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ISBN: 9780521436106

ISBN-10: 0521436109

ISBN-13: 9780521436106

Edition: 1999

Authors: Richard Kraut

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Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also analyses of the intellectual and social background of his thought, the development of his…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 578
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English




Introduction to the study of




Plato: the intellectual background




Stylometry and chronology




Socrates and the early dialogues




Mathematical method and philosophical truth




Inquiry in the




Plato and Greek religion




Platonic love




Plato's metaphysical epistemology




The defence of justice in Plato's Republic




Plato on poetic creativity




Good-bye to the Third Man Constance




Plato's Sophist on false statements




Disintegration and restoration: pleasure and pain in Plato's




Plato's later political thought