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ISBN: | 9780226993386 0226993388 0226993353 9780226993355 1282267159 9781282267152 9786612267154 6612267151
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-879) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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 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 ar.
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Other form: | Print version: Zuckert, Catherine H., 1942- Plato's philosophers. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226993355 0226993353
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Standard no.: | 3076385
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