The Cambridge companion to Plato / edited by Richard Kraut. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Plato / edited by Richard Kraut. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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English
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1 online resource (xiv, 560 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction to the study of Plato / Richard Kraut -- Plato : the intellectual background / T.H. Irwin -- Stylometry and chronology / Leonard Brandwood -- Socrates and the early dialogues / Terry Penner -- Mathematical method and philosophical truth / Ian Mueller -- Inquiry in the Meno / Gail Fine -...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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England
Date Published
1992.
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Summary
Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contempo...
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The Cambridge companion to Plato / edited by Richard Kraut. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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English
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74VKVw6zN683
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVw6zN683
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ISBN
1-139-00057-8
1-107-48463-4
0-511-22248-3
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184
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991023962502302626