Christopher Rowe, Rowe Christopher

Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major reassessment by a senior scholar of the whole of Plato's work and philosophical approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521131261
• ISBN-10: 052113126X
• Artikelnr.: 28518686

Autorenporträt

CHRISTOPHER ROWE is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics Ancient History at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminaries: reading Plato
The dialogues
Introduction: The simile of the cave in the Republic
1. The Apology: Socrates' defence, Plato's manifesto
2. The Phaedo: Socrates' defence continued
3. 'Examining myself and others', I: knowledge and soul in Charmides, First Alcibiades, Meno, Republic, Euthyphro, Phaedrus
4. The moral psychology of the Gorgias
5. 'Examining myself and others', II: soul, the excellences and the 'longer road' in the Republic
Interlude: a schedule of the genuine dialogues
6. Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, I: knowledge and belief in Book V
7. Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, II: the limits of knowledge
8. The Theaetetus, and the preferred Socratic-Platonic account of knowledge
9. The form of the good and the good: the Republic in conversation with other dialogues
10. Republic and Timaeus: the status of Timaeus' account of the physical universe
11. Plato on the art of writing and speaking (logoi): the Phaedrus
Epilogue: What is Platonism?