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Plato's Philosophers (Paperback)
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Plato's Philosophers (Paperback)
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Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from
the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have
never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and
between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Philosophers",
Catherine H. Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose
dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of
philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the
dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according
to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place.
This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise,
development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama's
earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers
introduce the political and philosophical problems to which
Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how
Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And,
finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his
philosophy's limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert
concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues' central figure
because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: What is the
best way to live?
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