Understanding Plato

by: Melling, D.J.

Price: 29,00 EURO

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 This acclaimed book provides a sound, reliable, and balanced introduction to Plato's work that also enables the reader to understand who the man was, the world he lived in, what he was attempting to do, and the reasons why his writings are still important today.

Contents:
Plato's life and background
Plato's writings
Early dialogues : the Laches
Can virtue be taught : the Protgoras
Philosopher and anti-philosopher : the rhetor
Learning and recollection : the Meno
Preparing the soul for death : the Phaedo
The ideal polis
Educating the ruling class
The theory of Forms or Ideas
Problems with Ideas : the Parmenides
The nature of knowledge : the Theaetetus
The later dialectic : the Sophist and the Statesman
The living world and the God who made it
Plato's last word : the Laws

Understanding Plato

by: Melling, D.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780192891167 / 978-0-19-289116-7
• ISBN-03: 0192891162 / 0-19-289116-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock