Devin Stauffer, Andrew Stauffer

The Unity of Plato's 'Gorgias'

Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias, showing how seemingly disparate themes are woven together.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108324
• ISBN-10: 0521108322
• Artikelnr.: 26056172

Autorenporträt

Devin Stauffer is assistant professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Plato's Introduction to the Question of Justice, and coauthor and co-translator of Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Examining the master of rhetoric
2. Polus and the dispute about justice
3. The confrontation between Socrates and Callicles
4. Socrates' situation and the rehabilitation of rhetoric
Conclusion: a final reflection on noble rhetoric.