Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos

by Joseph Cropsey

Book Overview

In this culmination of a lifetime's study, Joseph Cropsey examines the crucial relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought.

Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues--Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo--in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226121224
• ISBN13: 9780226121222
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"