{"product_id":"plato-and-the-socratic-dialogue-9780521648301","title":"Plato and the Socratic Dialogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… Kahn's writing is attractively lucid … this will become an important reference-point in Platonic studies.' JACT Review\u003cbr\u003e' … 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767711367511,"sku":"9780521648301","price":48.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521648301.jpg?v=1758714492","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plato-and-the-socratic-dialogue-9780521648301","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}