Plato and the post-Socratic dialogue : the return to the philosophy of nature /
Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the fra...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1. The Parmenides; 2. The Theaetetus in the context of later dialogues; 3. Being and not-being in the Sophist; 4. The new dialectic: from the Phaedrus to the Philebus; 5. Philebus and the movement to cosmology; 6. Timaeus and the completion of the project: the recovery of the natural world; Epilogue: Plato as a political philosopher.