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020			_a9781139381734 (ebook)
020			_z9781107031456 (hardback)
020			_z9781107576421 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aB395 _b.K235 2013
082	0	0	_a184 _223
100	1		_aKahn, Charles H., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPlato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue : _bThe Return to the Philosophy of Nature / _cCharles H. Kahn.
246	3		_aPlato & the Post-Socratic Dialogue
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (266 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aPlato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally been treated apart from the rest of Plato's late work. Kahn shows that this perplexing dialogue is the curtain-raiser on Plato's last metaphysical enterprise: the step-by-step construction of a wider theory of Being that provides the background for the creation story of the Timaeus. This rich study, the natural successor to Kahn's earlier Plato and the Socratic Dialogue, will interest a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and science.
650		0	_aPlato
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107031456
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381734
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37443 _d37443