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Platonic Errors: Plato, a Kind of Poet

Platonic Errors: Plato, a Kind of Poet

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Philosophy, Book 69

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0313307652
ISBN13: 9780313307652
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Dec 9 1998
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.59
Language: English
While the dramatic approach to Plato's dialogues has become popular over the last decade, little attention has been paid to the poetic quality of Plato's writing, and the received view of Platonic philosophy still depends on an unpoetic and largely literalist reading of the dialogues. The authors of this volume focus on the text of selected dialogues to identify the thread that unifies each of them from a literary point of view. The conclusions they reach in practicing this kind of reading are diametrically opposed to the largest stream of Platonic scholarship and show the fallacy of important metaphysical, epistemological, political, and ethical positions frequently attributed to Plato.

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