The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus
William H. F. Altman
If you’ve ever wondered why Plato stagedTimaeusas a kind of sequel toRepublic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joinedCritiastoTimaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing inPhaedrus, and of that dialogue’s apparent lack of unity; or what is the purpose of the long discussion of the One in the second half ofParmenides, and how it relates to the objections made to the Theory of Forms in its first half; or if the revisionists or unitarians are right aboutPhilebus, and why its Socrates seems less charming than usual, or whether or notCratylustakes place afterEuthyphro, and whether its far-fetched etymologies accomplish any serious philosophical purpose; or why the philosopher Socrates describes in the central digression ofTheaetetusis so different from Socrates himself; then you will enjoy reading the continuation of William H. F. Altman’sPlato the Teacher: The Crisis of theRepublic (Lexington; 2012), where he considers the pedagogical connections behind “the post-Republicdialogues” fromTimaeustoTheaetetusin the context of “the Reading Order of Plato’s dialogues.”
年:
2016
出版社:
Lexington Books
语言:
english
页:
554
ISBN 10:
1498517862
ISBN 13:
9781498517867
文件:
EPUB, 792 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2016