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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-27 - Publisher: Routledge

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In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom
Reading Plato's Theaetetus
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This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's aim in the Th
Plato of Athens
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Authors: Robin Waterfield
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This book, the first ever biography of the father of philosophy, tracks Plato's life from his childhood in war-torn Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE t
A Companion to Plato's Republic
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Nicholas P. White
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A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections am
Platonic Studies
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Authors: Gregory Vlastos
Categories: Philosophy
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This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the