Routledge Library Editions: Plato

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1. Plato and the English Romantics (RLE: Plato)

   By E Douka Kabitoglou

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction, the author shows that a dialogue between thinking and poetizing is possible....

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
2. Plato and the English Romantics (RLE: Plato)

   By E Douka Kabitoglou

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction, the author shows that a dialogue between thinking and poetizing is possible....

   Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Plato and Hegel (RLE: Plato)

   Two Modes of Philosophizing about Politics

   By Gary Browning

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Hegel and Plato are united as political theorists by the convergence of their philosophical aspirations. But their political writings manifest the general disparities involved in their particular ways of seeking to fulfil these aspirations. Professor Browning compares the political thought of Plato...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Plato Today (RLE: Plato)

   By R Crossman

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Plato was born around 2,500 years ago. He lived in a small city-state in Greece and busied himself with the problems of his fellow Greeks, a people living in scattered cities around the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In all he tried to do for the Greeks he failed. Why, then, should people in the...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Plato's Use of Fallacy (RLE: Plato)

   A Study of the Euthydemus and some Other Dialogues

   By Rosamond Sprague

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   There are many fallacious arguments in the dialogues of Plato. The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of at least an important number of these arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Message of Plato (RLE: Plato)

   A Re-Interpretation of the Republic

   By Edward Urwick

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Edward Urwick’s original work draws upon Plato’s best known work, the Republic, to provide a new interpretation of Plato’s teaching based upon Indian religious thought. Most scholars have sought to interpret the Republic from the standpoint of politics, ethics, and metaphysics and indeed the...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Plato and the Individual (RLE: Plato)

   By David Rankin

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   This book explores the life-history of the individual within the context of Plato’s social thought. The author examines Plato’s treatment of the principal crises in an individual life - birth, educational selection, sex, the individual’s contract with society, old age, death, and life...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Plato 's Metaphysics of Education (RLE: Plato)

   By Samuel Scolnicov

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   This volume provides a comprehensive, learned and lively presentation of the whole range of Plato’s thought but with a particular emphasis upon how Plato developed his metaphysics with a view to supporting his deepest educational convictions. The author explores the relation of Plato’s...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (RLE: Plato)

   Edited by R Allen

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

   Did Plato abandon, or sharply modify, the Theory of Forms in later life? In the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic it is generally agreed that Plato held that universals exist. But in Parmenides, he subjected that theory to criticism. If the criticism were valid, and Plato knew so, then the Parmenides...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Plato's Life and Thought (RLE: Plato)

    With a Translation of the Seventh Letter

    By R Bluck

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

    R. S. Bluck’s engaging volume provides an accessible introduction to the thought of Plato. In the first part of the book the author provides an account of the life of the philosopher, from Plato’s early years, through to the Academy, the first visit to Dionysius and the third visit to Syracuse, and...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge