Plato a guide for the perplexed /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
c2007.
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| Series: | Guides for the perplexed.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Plato's life and works
- The contexts for interpreting Plato's Dialogues
- Sources of perplexity : change
- A brief history of platonism and Plato interpretation
- Dialogue form
- Arguments and ideas, vision and doctrines
- Fables, myths, and stories
- Irony and other forms of humour
- Play and seriousness
- Paradox
- Plato's philosophy : permanence
- Platonic anonymity and the nature of Plato's philosophy
- Persistent themes and Plato's vision
- The platonic path to wisdom
- Help in reading and understanding Plato's Dialogues and his philosophy
- How to read a platonic dialogue
- Summaries of the Dialogues.