The Cambridge Companion to Plato 2nd Edition
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely...
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The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been thoroughly revised and updated by their original authors. The volume covers the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. Plato's dialogues are approached as unified works and considered within their intellectual context, and the revised introduction suggests a way of reading the dialogues that attends to the differences between them while also tracing their interrelations. The result is a rich and wide-ranging volume which will be valuable for all students and scholars of Plato.
Covers all aspects of Plato's philosophy
Argues for interesting new interpretations of Plato's work, while introducing students to the basic issues
Includes essays that explain the philosophical relevance of important background topics, including religion and mathematics, as well as chapters focused on individual dialogues
Editors
David Ebrey, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
Richard Kraut, Northwestern University, Illinois
Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.
Contributors
David Ebrey, Richard Kraut, T. H. Irwin, Leonard Brandwood, Eric Brown, Agnes Callard, Gai...
Editors
David Ebrey, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.
Richard Kraut, Northwestern University, Illinois
Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.
Contributors
David Ebrey, Richard Kraut, T. H. Irwin, Leonard Brandwood, Eric Brown, Agnes Callard, Gail Fine, Suzanne Obdrzalek, Gábor Betegh, Elizabeth Asmis, Henry Mendell, Constance C. Meinwald, Michael Frede, Emily Fletcher, Verity Harte, Rachana Kamtekar, Rachel Singpurwalla