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Interpreting Plato's Dialogues
J. Angelo CorlettThis book introduces readers to some key problems in understanding Plato's writings, and explores in-depth and critically the various ways of approaching Plato.
Reflections on Plato's Poetics: Essays from Beijing
Rick BenitezThe book does not adopt any monolithic point of view about Plato and poetry. Instead it openly explores Plato's attitudes to poetry, both comprehensively and within the intricate confines of particular dialogues.
Plato's Ethics
Terence IrwinReplacing Irwin's earlier Plato's Moral Theory (Oxford, 1977), this book gives a clearer and fuller account of the main questions and discusses some recent controversies in the interpretation of Plato's ethics.
How To Read Plato
Richard KrautRichard Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasizes the influence of Socrates, whose devotion to the examined life and death at the hands of Athenian democracy are memorialized in many of Plato's ...
Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with ...
PlatoThis new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The ...
Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience
Lorraine Simexpression in Plato's philosophy, and the manichaean model of soul–body relations that 'On Being Ill' critiques is most likely derived from Woolf's reading of Plato.27 Emily Dalgarno argues that Woolf 'wrote of Plato primarily as a poet and ...
Plato
Eric VoegelinOnce again available in paperback, Plato is the first half of Eric Voegelin's Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of his five-volume Order and History, which has been hailed throughout the Western world as a monumental accomplishment of ...
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays
Richard KrautDesigned for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.
Plato on the Human Paradox
Robert J. O''ConnellDesigned for beginning students in philosophy, Plato on the Human Paradox examines and confronts human nature and the eternal questions concerning human nature through the dialogues of Plato, focusing on the Apology, Phaedo, Books III-VI of ...
Πλατωνος Φαιδρος
PlatoThis book provides all the tools necessary to read and understand Plato's Phaedrus in the original Greek.
Parmenides
PlatoThis new translation of what may be Plato's most elusive dialogue provides a faithful rendering of the Greek text without sacrificing clarity in English.
Plato and the Divided Self
PreviewInvestigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.
Plato: 'The Republic'
PlatoPresents the most important of the Socratic dialogues as if it were a conversation; deals with the creation of an ideal commonwealth and ranks as one of the earliest Utopian works.
The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Richard KrautThis volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion.
Plato's Cratylus
David SedleyThe book's main argument is so formulated as to be intelligible to readers with no knowledge of Greek, and will have a significant impact both on the study of Plato and on the history of linguistic thought.
The Republic of Plato
PlatoA model for the ideal state includes discussions of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character
A Companion to Plato
PreviewThe volume will be welcomed for the wide range of topics and the multiplicity of perspectives it presents. As an aid to fuller understanding, it also includes overviews of Plato’s life, works, and philosophical method.
Parmenides:
PlatoTHE awe with which Plato regarded the character of ‘the great’ Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name.
Plato and Nietzsche: Their Philosophical Art
Mark AndersonIntroduces the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche providing an original exploration of their ideas in dialogue and debate.
Plato's Universe: With a New Introduction by Luc Brisson
Gregory VlastosLooks at Plato's theory of the cosmos, as well as what earlier Greeks thought of the makeup of the universe. Original.
Why Plato Wrote
Danielle S. AllenWhy Plato Wrote is the first book to be published in the prestigious Blackwell Bristol Lecture Series in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
Meno:
PlatoPlato's Meno is the dialogue which more than any other occupies a transitional position between the early Socratic dialogues and the developed middle period theory of the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic.
Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga: An Introduction to ...
Dewey J. HoitengaThis book traces the historical lineages of Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology from Plato through Augustine and Calvin.
In Dialogue With The Greeks: Plato and Dialectic
PreviewIn this volume Rhees brings the perspective of a modern Wittgensteinian philosopher to bear on the dialogues of Plato concluding that language is not a collection of isolated games, rather we speak in the course of lives that we lead and ...
Timaeus
PlatoThis book is one of the most popular novels of Plato, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic
Nickolas PappasIt leads the reader through Plato's life, the background to the Republic, its text and ideas, and its continuing influence on Western thought.
Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
Andrea Wilson NightingaleThis 1995 book takes as its starting point Plato's incorporation of specific genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues.
The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation
R. B. RutherfordThis book is not a study of Plato's philosophy, but a contribution to the literary interpretation of the dialogues, through analysis of their formal structure, characterization, language, and imagery.
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