Routledge Library Editions: Plato
Plato's Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Forms (RLE: Plato): A Re-Interpretation of the Republic
1st Edition
By R Allen
March 07, 2014
Plato’s Euthyphro is important because it gives an excellent example of Socratic dialogue in operation and of the connection of that dialectic with Plato’s earlier theory of Forms. Professor Allen’s edition of the dialogue provides a translation with interspersed commentary, aimed both at helping ...
Plato: The Man and His Work (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
By A.E. Taylor
March 07, 2014
This book provides an introduction to Plato’s work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular, it tells the reader just what Plato says, and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato’s works to suit...
Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
By I Crombie
March 07, 2014
In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife’s apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable ...
Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
By A.E. Taylor
March 07, 2014
Plato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale ...
Unity and Development in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
By William Prior
March 07, 2014
Studies of Plato’s metaphysics have tended to emphasise either the radical change between the early Theory of Forms and the late doctrines of the Timaeus and the Sophist, or to insist on a unity of approach that is unchanged throughout Plato’s career. The author lays out an alternative approach. ...
New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
Edited
By Renford Bambrough
September 11, 2012
What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the ...
Plato and His Contemporaries (RLE: Plato): A Study in Fourth Century Life and Thought
1st Edition
By G. C. Field
September 11, 2012
This book helps understand Plato’s writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced. The author begins with an account of Plato’s life and development and a brief analysis of some of the more difficult points arising from the criticism of Plato’s writings. The remainder of the ...
Plato's Life and Thought (RLE: Plato): With a Translation of the Seventh Letter
1st Edition
By R Bluck
September 11, 2012
R. S. Bluck’s engaging volume provides an accessible introduction to the thought of Plato. In the first part of the book the author provides an account of the life of the philosopher, from Plato’s early years, through to the Academy, the first visit to Dionysius and the third visit to Syracuse, and...
Plato's Philebus (RLE: Plato)
1st Edition
By Donald Davidson
September 11, 2012
The Philebus is hard to reconcile with standard interpretations of Plato’s philosophy and in this pioneering work Donald Davidson, seeks to take the Philebus at face value and to reassess Plato’s late philosophy in the light of the results. The author maintains that the approach to ethics in ...
Routledge Library Editions: Plato
1st Edition
By Various
September 11, 2012
Plato is perhaps the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. A pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, his ideas have inspired and influenced scholars of nearly every era. His famous series of dialogues have become a standard part of the western philosophical ...