Understanding Plato

ISBN-13: 9780192891167 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 192 str.

D. J. Melling; David Melling

Opis

This incisive book fills the longstanding need for a sound, reliable, and balanced guide to the whole of Plato's philosophical work. Melling describes the different stages in Plato's philosophical development, introduces his different methods and styles of philosophy, and explains why the debates were important then and what sense we can make of them now. Against the background of the ancient Greek world, Melling illuminates Plato the man, his writings, and, above all, why his ideas should be considered important two thousand years after his death.

Recenzje

a book well-worth reading...Anyone seeking to find out about Plato would do well to start off with it.

O autorze

David Melling is former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Law, and Social Science at Manchester Polytechnic.