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This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.

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'… Kahn's writing is attractively lucid … this will become an important reference-point in Platonic studies.' JACT Review
' … Kahn's extremely rich account of Plato and his work … an important book, one of which all those interested in Plato will want to form an opinion'. New York Review of Books

Table of Contents
1. Sokratikoi logoi: the literary and intellectual background of Plato's work; 2. The interpretation of Plato; 3. Socrates; 4. Plato as a minor Socratic: Ion and Hippias Minor; 5. Gorgias: Plato's manifesto for philosophy; 6. The priority of definition: from Laches to Meno; 7. Charmides and the search for beneficial knowledge; 8. Protagoras: virtue as knowledge; 9. The object of love; 10. The emergence of dialectic; 11. The presentation of the Forms; 12. Phaedrus and the limits of writing; Appendix; Bibliography.

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6 April 1998
      ISBN-13 9780521648301
      978-0521648301
      ISBN-10 0521648300
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      Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.

      Trade Review
      '… Kahn's writing is attractively lucid … this will become an important reference-point in Platonic studies.' JACT Review
      ' … Kahn's extremely rich account of Plato and his work … an important book, one of which all those interested in Plato will want to form an opinion'. New York Review of Books

      Table of Contents
      1. Sokratikoi logoi: the literary and intellectual background of Plato's work; 2. The interpretation of Plato; 3. Socrates; 4. Plato as a minor Socratic: Ion and Hippias Minor; 5. Gorgias: Plato's manifesto for philosophy; 6. The priority of definition: from Laches to Meno; 7. Charmides and the search for beneficial knowledge; 8. Protagoras: virtue as knowledge; 9. The object of love; 10. The emergence of dialectic; 11. The presentation of the Forms; 12. Phaedrus and the limits of writing; Appendix; Bibliography.

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