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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820644003321

Autore

Szlezak Thomas Alexander

Titolo

Reading Plato / / Thomas A. Szlezak ; translated by Graham Zanker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-65649-1

1-134-65650-5

1-280-25362-2

9786610253623

0-203-98100-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (117 p.)

Disciplina

184

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Platon lesen. Stuttgart : Verlag frommann-holzboog, 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOKCOVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 THE JOY OF READING PLATO; 2 THE READER PARTICIPATES; 3 AN EXAMPLE OF INDIVIDUAL RECEPTION; 4 POSSIBLE MISTAKEN ATTITUDES ON THE PART OF THE READER; 5 ONE DOES NOT SEE WHAT ONE DOES NOT KNOW; 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES; 7 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS; 8 FOR WHOM IS PLATO WRITING?; 9 DOES A PLATONIC DIALOGUE SPEAK WITH SEVERAL VOICES?; 10 AN ANCIENT THEORY OF INTERPRETATION; 11 THE INTERPRETATION OF SIMONIDES IN THE PROTAGORAS; 12 THE CRITIQUE OF WRITING IN THE PHAEDRUS

13 THE DEFINITION OF THE PHILOSOPHER BASED ON HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS WRITINGS14 THE MEANING OF TIMI?TEPA; 15 'SUPPORT FOR THE LOGOS' IN THE DIALOGUES; 16 THE ASCENT TO THE PRINCIPLES AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL COMMUNICATION; 17 SOME 'GAPS'; 18 THE DOCTRINE OF ANAMNESIS AND DIALECTIC IN THE EUTHYDEMUS; 19 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLUSIONS FOR READING PLATO; 20 PLATO'S DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE; 21 IRONY; 22 MYTH; 23 MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE WITH IMAGINARY PARTNERS; 24 THE CHARAC

Sommario/riassunto

Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the



complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues which will be invaluable to any student of Plato's philosophy