Reading Plato

Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy.
Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.

Author: Thomas a. Szlezák
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/04/1999
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.92w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780415189835