Plato's philosophers : the coherence of the dialogues /

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Author / Creator:Zuckert, Catherine H., 1942-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 888 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198137
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ISBN:9780226993386
0226993388
0226993353
9780226993355
1282267159
9781282267152
9786612267154
6612267151
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-879) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Zuckert, Catherine H., 1942- Plato's philosophers. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009 9780226993355 0226993353
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