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The Cambridge Companion to Plato

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Cambridge Companion to Plato
Authors and Contributors      Edited by David Ebrey
Edited by Richard Kraut
SeriesCambridge Companions to Philosophy
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:520
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWestern philosophy - Ancient to c 500
Philosophy - metaphysics and ontology
Philosophy - logic
Philosophy - aesthetics
Ethics and moral philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9781108471190
ClassificationsDewey:184
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition 2nd Revised edition
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 4 August 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.