The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Ebrey David)
The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Ebrey David) The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty…
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The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Ebrey David)
The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research.
The volume covers the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. Six others have been thoroughly revised and updated by their original authors. Plato's dialogues are approached as unified works and considered within their intellectual context, and the revised introduction suggests a way of reading the dialogues that attends to the differences between them while also tracing their interrelations.
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