Plato's Charmides : an interpretative commentary

• Tác giả: Voula Tsouna
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9781009036610 (ebook)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 184 Platonic philosophy
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 371829
• Chủ đề: 1. Ethics--Early works to 1800; 2. Knowledge, Theory of--Early works to 1800

Tóm tắt

 The Charmides is a difficult and enigmatic dialogue traditionally considered one of Plato's Socratic dialogues. This book provides a close text commentary on the dialogue which tracks particular motifs throughout. These notably include the characterization of Critias, Charmides, and Socrates
  the historical context and subtext, literary features such as irony and foreshadowing
  the philosophical context and especially how the dialogue looks back to more traditional Socratic dialogues and forward to dialogues traditionally placed in Plato's middle and late period
  and most importantly the philosophical and logical details of the arguments and their dialectical function. A new translation of the dialogue is included in an appendix. This will be essential reading for all scholars and students of Plato and of ancient philosophy.