Plato and the art of philosophical writing Christopher Rowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowe, C. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Plato--Literary art.

Plato--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 290 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press 2007.

Summary:

This introduction to Plato's dialogues and his writing is ideal for those new to his work, giving historical context to his ideas. 'Christopher Rowe's Plato, ahead of its time when first published, is highly welcome in a new reprint. Rowe faces from the start the point that the reader of Plato's dialogues is encountering a challenging form of philosophy, one which demands both intellectual rigour and personal response, one which challenges the reader both to systematize the ideas in different dialogues and to do justice to them in their distinct dramatic settings. It invites us to shared inquiry rather than deference to established positions, and this clear and subtle introduction will draw the beginner into fruitful engagement with Plato's many ideas.'- Julia Annas, University of Arizona '... compels the reader to engage with the actual text and thus gain an appreciation of the Socratic method of shared enquiry.' - Margaret Buckley, Classics Ireland

Contents:

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

1. Plato and Socrates

2. The Dialogues and the Dialogue Form

Euthyphro

Symposium

Statesman

3. On 'Forms'

Early and Middle Dialogues

The Parmenides and After

Postscript

4. Knowledge, Pleasure and the Good

Protagoras

Gorgias

Republic

Philebus

5. State and Individual

After the Republic

6. Poets, Orators and Sophists

On the Poets

On Rhetoric

On the Sophists

7. On the 'Soul'

8. On the Natural World

9. The 'Unwritten Doctrines'

10. Plato and the Thought of his Time

Epilogue: Plato and the Twentieth Century

Bibliography

Indexes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index

ISBN:

9781472598127

1472598121

OCLC:

192004712