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Paperback Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing Book

ISBN: 052113126X

ISBN13: 9780521131261

Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing

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Plato's dialogues are usually understood as simple examples of philosophy in action. In this book Professor Rowe treats them rather as literary-philosophical artefacts, shaped by Plato's desire to persuade his readers to exchange their view of life and the universe for a different view which, from their present perspective, they will barely begin to comprehend. What emerges is a radically new Plato: a Socratic throughout, who even in the late dialogues...

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