The Crane's Walk: Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth

by Jeremy Barris

In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this pluralism is important in its own right, whether or not we agree about what Plato's standpoint is.The longest tradition of Plato scholarship identifies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229130
• ISBN13: 9780823229130
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.2"