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Plato's World

Man's Place in the Cosmos

Joseph Cropsey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:5th Jun '97

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This text examines the relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe, and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - "Theaetetus", "Euthyphro", "Sophist", "Statesman", "Apology", "Crito" and "Phaedo" - in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is often unreasonable, and populated by human beings unaided by gods and dealt with equivocally by nature.

ISBN: 9780226121222

Dimensions: 23mm x 16mm x 2mm

Weight: 369g

238 pages