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Plato's philosophers : the coherence of the dialogues

Author: Catherine H Zuckert
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and  Read more...

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Named Person: Plato.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine H Zuckert
ISBN: 9780226993355 0226993353
OCLC Number: 262429469
Description: viii, 888 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Platonic dramatology --
The political and philosophical problems. Using pre-Socratic philosophy to support political reform: the Athenian stranger ; Plato's Parmenides: Parmenides' critique of Socrates and Plato's critique of Parmenides ; Becoming Socrates ; Socrates interrogates his contemporaries about the noble and good --
Two paradigms of philosophy. Socrates' positive teaching ; Timaeus-Critias: completing or challenging Socratic political philosophy? ; Socratic practice --
The trial and death of Socrates. The limits of human intelligence ; The Eleatic challenge ; The trial and death of Socrates --
Conclusion: Why Plato made Socrates his hero.
Responsibility: Catherine H. Zuckert.

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