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100 1 _aPress, Gerald A.
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245 1 0 _aPlato
_ba guide for the perplexed
260 _aLondon
_bContinuum
_c2007
300 _aviii,240p.
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_c22 cm.
490 0 _aGuides for the perplexed
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index.
505 0 _aPlato's life and works -- The contexts for interpreting Plato's Dialogues -- Sources of perplexity : change -- A brief history of platonism and Plato interpretation -- Dialogue form -- Arguments and ideas, vision and doctrines -- Fables, myths, and stories -- Irony and other forms of humour -- Play and seriousness -- Paradox -- Plato's philosophy : permanence -- Platonic anonymity and the nature of Plato's philosophy -- Persistent themes and Plato's vision -- The platonic path to wisdom -- Help in reading and understanding Plato's Dialogues and his philosophy -- How to read a platonic dialogue -- Summaries of the Dialogues.
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