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Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras

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Availability:In StockContributor:Malcolm Schofield (Editor), Tom Griffith (Translator)Series:Cambridge Texts in the History of Political ThoughtPublish date:2009-12-21Pages:266
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521546003ISBN-10:521546001UPC:9780521546003Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC47AW1E9R
Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens. Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions. In the Protagoras, another important contribution to moral and political philosophy in its own right, Socrates takes on leading intellectuals (the 'sophists') of the later fifth century BC and their pretensions to knowledge. The dialogues are introduced and annotated by Malcolm Schofield, a leading authority on ancient Greek political philosophy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521546003ISBN-10:521546001UPC:9780521546003Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, PoliticalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC47AW1E9R
Schofield, Malcolm: - Malcolm Schofield is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.Griffith, Tom: - Tom Griffith has also translated Plato's The Republic, Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Phaedrus.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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