Introducing Plato / Dave Robinson and Judy Groves ; edited by Richard Appignanesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Dave.

Contributor:

Groves, Judy.

Appignanesi, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Plato

Place of Publication:

Duxford, Cambridge : Icon Books ; USA : Totem Books ; Lanham, Md. : In the U.S. distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2000.

Summary:

A pupil of Socrates, he is credited with founding the first university. Perhaps the greatest of all philosophers, the work of such diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche can be traced to his influence.

Dave Robinson, whose previous works include: Ethics; Philosophy; and Descartes in this Introducing series, here provides a clear analysis of Plato's major works including The Republic and Symposium. Two thousand years later we are still puzzling over two Platonic ideas -- 'learning is recollection of in-born knowledge', and his 'Theory of Forms' -- the most influential of all his doctrines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1840461136

OCLC:

43342371