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Description for Philosophos
hardcover. Mary Louise Gill presents a bold new explanation of the fact that the dialogue which Plato promised to write on the Philosopher, complementing the Sophist and the Statesman, is missing. Gill argues that he left it unwritten in order to stimulate his readers and encourage them to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HP; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 610. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato's investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced ... Read more
Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it, in order to stimulate his audience and encourage his readers to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. The Sophist and Statesman are themselves members of a larger series starting with the Theaetetus, Plato's investigation of knowledge, and the whole series relies on the Parmenides, the second part of which presents a philosophical exercise, introduced ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199606184
SKU
KSG0034557
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Ref
99-1
About Mary Louise Gill
Mary Louise Gill is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Brown University. She is the author of Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity (Princeton, 1989) and of many articles and several co-edited books on Plato and Aristotle.
Reviews for Philosophos
This is a brilliant and provocative book. Gill has the courage to construe four or five of Plato's most difficult dialogues as components of a single project, which she defines by reference to the unwritten dialogue Philosopher
Charles H. Kahn, Mind
The strength of Gills book lies in the detailed analyses and interpretations of various important passages. To ... Read more
Charles H. Kahn, Mind
The strength of Gills book lies in the detailed analyses and interpretations of various important passages. To ... Read more