Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues

by Catherine H. Zuckert

Book Overview

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato's Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.

To expose this coherence, Zuckert...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022600774X
• ISBN13: 9780226007748
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 896 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"