Plato and his Predecessors : The Dramatisation of Reason

Name: Plato and his Predecessors
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521653060
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521653060

by Mary Margaret McCabe

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Format Hardback

Book Series The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

ISBN-10 0521653061

ISBN-13 9780521653060

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 15th, 2000

Print length 328 Pages

Weight 634 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 23.70 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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A consideration of how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors. These predecessors appear in imaginary conversations; and they are refuted when they fail to defend their philosophical positions in debate. Professor McCabe argues that Plato's reflections on these conversations allow him to develop a new account of the principles of reason.

How does Plato view his philosophical antecedents? Plato and his Predecessors considers how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a late quartet of dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus and the Philebus. Why is it that the sophist Protagoras, or the monist Parmenides, or the advocate of flux, Heraclitus, are so important in these dialogues? And why are they represented as such shadowy figures, barely present at their own refutations? The explanation, the author argues, is a complex one involving both the reflective relation between Plato's dramatic technique and his philosophical purposes, and the very nature of his late philosophical views. For in these encounters with his predecessors we see Plato develop a new account of the principles of reason, against those who would deny them, and forge a fresh view of the best life - the life of the philosopher.

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