PLATO'S SOPHIST: PART II: The Being of the Beautiful

Plato; Seth Bernadete

ISBN 10: 0226670325 / ISBN 13: 9780226670324

Published by University of Chicago, Chicago, 1986

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199 pages. Paperback in very good condition except for a small amount of light pencil underlining and marginalia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PLATO'S SOPHIST: PART II: The Being of the Beautiful
• Publisher: University of Chicago, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226670325
• ISBN 13: 9780226670324
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these translations can be read separately or as a trilogy. Each includes an introduction, extensive notes, and comprehensive commentary that examines the trilogy's motifs and relationships.

"Seth Benardete is one of the very few contemporary classicists who combine the highest philological competence with a subtlety and taste that approximate that of the ancients. At the same time, he as set himself the entirely modern hermeneutical task of uncovering what the ancients preferred to keep veiled, of making explicit what they indicated, and hence...of showing the naked ugliness of artificial beauty."—Stanley Rose, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Seth Benardete (1930-2001) was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author or translator of many books, most recently The Argument of the Action, Plato's "Laws," and Plato's "Symposium," all published by the University of Chicago Press.

About the Author

Plato (c. 427-347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period of Greece and a student of Socrates. Thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to Plato. He founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.