The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth and on Plato's Euthyphro: New Edition - Paperback
by Ronna Burger
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Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Augustine's PressISBN-13:9781587316708ISBN-10:1587316706UPC:9781587316708Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalProduct ID:SC2HSXKDN6
The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth and on Plato's Euthyphro: New Edition
Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" - the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Tracing the movement of the argument through the work as a whole, Burger is led to a radical rethinking of those doctrines. That movement is indicated by the structure of the dialogue, divided in two halves by a central interlude in which Socrates...
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Augustine's PressISBN-13:9781587316708ISBN-10:1587316706UPC:9781587316708Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalProduct ID:SC2HSXKDN6
Ronna Burger is the Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair in the Dept. of Philosophy at Tulane University, where she has taught since 1980. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty in 1975, with a dissertation directed by Seth Benardete. She is the author of books on Plato's Phaedrus and Phaedo as well as Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean...
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