Phaedo / Edition 1

by David Gallop, Plato

Overview

Phaedo By Plato Plato

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198720492
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	10/28/1975
Series:	Clarendon Plato Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 7.88(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Jowett (15 April 1817 - 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 BC - 348/347 BC) was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 1. Literature and philosophy; 2. Plato's conception of philosophy; 3. The aims of Plato's philosophical writing; 4. The Phaedo and Pythagoreanism; 5. The 'theory of forms'; 6. Platonic conceptions of the soul; 7. Myths and philosophy; 8. The Phaedo and the Platonic corpus; 9. The text of the Phaedo; 10. Select bibliography; The Phaedo; Commentary.

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent philosophical commentary on the Phaedo. Lucidly sets out all the salient problems and controversies."—J.M. Dillon, University of Washington

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