Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature

ISBN-13: 9781107031456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 266 str.

Charles H Kahn

Opis

These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato's project of reformulating his theory of Forms.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The Parmenides; 2. The Theaetetus in the context of later dialogues; 3. Being and not-being in the Sophist; 4. The new dialectic: from the Phaedrus to the Philebus; 5. Philebus and the movement to cosmology; 6. Timaeus and the completion of the project: the recovery of the natural world; Epilogue: Plato as a political philosopher.