Le Philèbe de Platon: Introduction À l'Agathologie Platonicienne (Philosophia Antiqua) (French Edition) - Hardcover

Dr Delcomminette, Sylvain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004150269 ISBN 13: 9789004150263

Publisher: Brill, 2006

Synopsis

This book deals with the nature and function of the good in Plato’s philosophy, by focusing on the dialogue explicitly devoted to it: the Philebus. It provides a comprehensive commentary of this difficult dialogue in which almost all the themes of Plato’s philosophy are discussed or alluded to. The author shows that a scrupulous analysis and reconstruction of its argumentative progress makes it possible to discover the unity between these different topics, and argues that this unity lies in the fact that Plato develops there what he was calling for notably in the Republic, i.e. a (dialectical) science of the good (or ‘agathology’). Read from this viewpoint, the Philebus appears as a dialogue of tremendous importance for the understanding of Plato’s philosophy as a whole.

About this title

About the Author:

Sylvain Delcomminette, Ph.D. (2003) in Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, has studied in Brussels and Cambridge. He is currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium). He has published L' inventivité dialectique dans le Politique de Platon (Brussels, 2000).

Review:

"The book makes a signifficant contribution to the study of Plato that is essential reading for scholars at work on the Philibus." George Rudebusch, Ancient Philosophy 29 (2009)

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004150269
• ISBN 13: 9789004150263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 696