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How to Read Plato
Richard Kraut
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Paperback. Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. This book 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. Series: How to Read. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88.
'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Socrates Plato is the founding 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 ... Read more
'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Socrates Plato is the founding 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
How to Read
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847080325
SKU
V9781847080325
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99-80
About Richard Kraut
Richard Kraut is Morrison Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author of Socrates and the State, Aristotle on the Human Good, What is Good and Why, and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Plato.
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