Plato and the post-Socratic dialogue : the return to the philosophy of nature / Charles H. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Charles H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Plato & the Post-Socratic Dialogue

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider theory of Being that provides the background for the creation story of the Timaeus. This rich study, the natural successor to Kahn's earlier Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and science.

Contents:

The Parmenides

The Theaetetus in the context of later dialogues

Being and not-being in the Sophist

The new dialectic : from the Phaedrus to the Philebus

Philebus and the movement to cosmology

Timaeus and the completion of the project: the recovery of the natural world

Epilogue: Plato as a political philosopher.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-45415-8

1-139-89233-9

1-107-46125-1

1-107-57642-3

1-107-47211-3

1-139-38173-3

1-107-46850-7

1-107-46500-1

1-107-47311-X

OCLC:

864550941