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How Plato Writes
Perspectives and Problems
Buch von Malcolm Schofield
Sprache: Englisch

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Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument but also abound in allegory, myth and paradox, with clearly characterised participants set against a particular historical context. This engrossing book shows how Plato's literary qualities are crucial to understanding his philosophy.
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument but also abound in allegory, myth and paradox, with clearly characterised participants set against a particular historical context. This engrossing book shows how Plato's literary qualities are crucial to understanding his philosophy.
Über den Autor
MALCOLM SCHOFIELD is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized as one of the major scholars in the world currently working on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His first book was An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge, 1980), he co-authored with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1983), and has co-edited numerous other collaborative volumes, including in 2015 with Catherine Rowett a special Heraclitus issue of the journal Rhizomata, and with Tom Griffith a new English edition of Plato's Laws (Cambridge, 2016). He now works mostly on Greek and Roman political philosophy. He was co-editor with Christopher Rowe of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge, 2000). The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge, 1991), Saving the City (1999), Plato: Political Philosophy (2006) and Cicero: Political Philosophy (2021) are among his major solo publications.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Approaches to the Corpus: 1. Plato in his Time and Place; 2. When and Why Did Plato Write Narrated Dialogues?; 3. Against System: the Historical Plato in the Mid-Victorian Era; Part II. Argument and Dialogue Architecture: 4. Callicles' Return: Gorgias 509-22 Reconsidered; 5. Likeness and Likenesses in the Parmenides; 6. The Elusiveness of Cratylus in the Cratylus; Part III. Myth and Allegory in the Republic: 7. The Noble Lie; 8. The Cave; Part IV. Projects, Paradoxes, and Literary Registers in the Laws: 9. Religion and Philosophy in the Laws; 10. The Laws' Two Projects; 11. Plato, Xenophon, and the laws of Lycurgus; 12. Injury, Injustice, and the Involuntary in the Laws; 13. Plato's Marionette; 14. Paradoxes of Childhood and Play in Heraclitus and Plato.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781108483087
ISBN-10: 1108483089
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Schofield, Malcolm
Hersteller: Cambridge University Pr.
Abbildungen: Worked examples or Exercises
Maße: 231 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Malcolm Schofield
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,618 kg
Artikel-ID: 126939177
Über den Autor
MALCOLM SCHOFIELD is an Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized as one of the major scholars in the world currently working on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. His first book was An Essay on Anaxagoras (Cambridge, 1980), he co-authored with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1983), and has co-edited numerous other collaborative volumes, including in 2015 with Catherine Rowett a special Heraclitus issue of the journal Rhizomata, and with Tom Griffith a new English edition of Plato's Laws (Cambridge, 2016). He now works mostly on Greek and Roman political philosophy. He was co-editor with Christopher Rowe of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge, 2000). The Stoic Idea of the City (Cambridge, 1991), Saving the City (1999), Plato: Political Philosophy (2006) and Cicero: Political Philosophy (2021) are among his major solo publications.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I. Approaches to the Corpus: 1. Plato in his Time and Place; 2. When and Why Did Plato Write Narrated Dialogues?; 3. Against System: the Historical Plato in the Mid-Victorian Era; Part II. Argument and Dialogue Architecture: 4. Callicles' Return: Gorgias 509-22 Reconsidered; 5. Likeness and Likenesses in the Parmenides; 6. The Elusiveness of Cratylus in the Cratylus; Part III. Myth and Allegory in the Republic: 7. The Noble Lie; 8. The Cave; Part IV. Projects, Paradoxes, and Literary Registers in the Laws: 9. Religion and Philosophy in the Laws; 10. The Laws' Two Projects; 11. Plato, Xenophon, and the laws of Lycurgus; 12. Injury, Injustice, and the Involuntary in the Laws; 13. Plato's Marionette; 14. Paradoxes of Childhood and Play in Heraclitus and Plato.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781108483087
ISBN-10: 1108483089
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Schofield, Malcolm
Hersteller: Cambridge University Pr.
Abbildungen: Worked examples or Exercises
Maße: 231 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Malcolm Schofield
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,618 kg
Artikel-ID: 126939177
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