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Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature
Charles H. Kahn
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Description for Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature
Paperback. These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato's project of reformulating his theory of Forms. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider ... Read more
Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107576421
SKU
V9781107576421
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About Charles H. Kahn
Charles H. Kahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology, 3rd edition (1994), The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary (1979), Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form (1997) and ... Read more
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