How Plato Writes
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How Plato Writes
Author: Malcolm Schofield
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2023-08-17
World-renowned scholar Malcolm Schofield shows how Plato's versatile literary qualities are crucial to understanding his philosophy.
How Plato Writes
Author: Malcolm Schofield
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2023-08-17
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, paradox and intertextuality. He astutely characterises the participants whom he portrays in conversation. Sometimes he composes fictive dialogues in dramatic form while at other times he does so as narratives. In this book, world-renowned scholar Malcolm Schofield illustrates the variety of the literary resources that Plato deploys to achieve his philosophical purposes. He draws key passages for discussion particularly, but not only, from Republic and the less well-known Laws and also shows how reconstructing the original historical context of a dialogue and of its assumed readership is essential to understanding Plato's approach. The book will open the eyes of readers of all levels of expertise to Plato's masterly ability as a writer and how an understanding of this is crucial if we are to appreciate his philosophy.
Why Plato Wrote
Author: Danielle S. Allen
language: en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2010-11-15
Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world’s first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world’s first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics Offers accessible discussions of Plato’s philosophy of language and political theory Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011