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Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues

Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues

Catherine H. Zuckert

9780226007748

Chicago University Press


Philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Social & political philosophy

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Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato's Philosophers , Catherine H. Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama's earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy's limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues' central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: What is the best way to live?

By:   Catherine H. Zuckert
Imprint:   Chicago University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 46mm,  Width: 229mm,  Spine: 152mm
Weight:   1.170kg
ISBN:  

9780226007748


ISBN 10:   022600774X
Publication Date:   October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
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No serious student of Plato could fail to benefit from [Zuckert's] careful, intelligent, probing, and illuminating discussions. . . . An important, impressive, and, one hopes, lasting book. --Mark Blitz, Claremont Review --Mark Blitz Claremont Review


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