How to Read Plato Richard Kraut,
Publisher: Granta UK
ISBN: 1847080324
DDC: 184
Edition: Paperback; 2009-09-01
Summary:
Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. He
was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and
rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value,
and few philosophers have escaped his influence or rivaled the depth
of his works, many of which have remarkable dramatic power and
literary beauty. His writings range over ethics, politics, religion,
art, the structure of the natural world, mathematics, the human mind,
love, sex, and friendship. Richard Kraut explores the intellectual
milieu that gave rise to Plato’s thinking and emphasizes the
influence of Socrates, whose devotion to the examined life and death
at the hands of Athenian democracy are memorialized in many of
Plato’s writings. The full extent of his moral and political thought
and its metaphysical underpinning are investigated.
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