Charles H. Kahn (University of Pennsylvania)

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue

The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780521648301
• ISBN-10: 0521648300
• Artikelnr.: 21692314

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sokratikoi logoi: the literary and intellectual background of Plato's work
2. The interpretation of Plato
3. Socrates
4. Plato as a minor Socratic: Ion and Hippias Minor
5. Gorgias: Plato's manifesto for philosophy
6. The priority of definition: from Laches to Meno
7. Charmides and the search for beneficial knowledge
8. Protagoras: virtue as knowledge
9. The object of love
10. The emergence of dialectic
11. The presentation of the Forms
12. Phaedrus and the limits of writing
Appendix
Bibliography.