Platonic Errors

Gene Fendt, David Rozema

ISBN 10: 0313307652 / ISBN 13: 9780313307652

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 1998

About this Item

While the dramatic approach to Plato's dialogues has become popular over the last decade, little attention has been paid to the poetic quality of Plato's writing, and the received view of Platonic philosophy still depends on an unpoetic and largely literalist reading of the dialogues. The authors of this volume focus on the text of selected dialogues to identify the thread that unifies each of them from a literary point of view. The conclusions they reach in practicing this kind of reading are diametrically opposed to the largest stream of Platonic scholarship and show the fallacy of important metaphysical, epistemological, political, and ethical positions frequently attributed to Plato.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Platonic Errors
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313307652
• ISBN 13: 9780313307652
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

While the dramatic approach to Plato's dialogues has become popular over the last decade, little attention has been paid to the poetic quality of Plato's writing, and the received view of Platonic philosophy still depends on an unpoetic and largely literalist reading of the dialogues. The authors of this volume focus on the text of selected dialogues to identify the thread that unifies each of them from a literary point of view. The conclusions they reach in practicing this kind of reading are diametrically opposed to the largest stream of Platonic scholarship and show the fallacy of important metaphysical, epistemological, political, and ethical positions frequently attributed to Plato.

About the Author

GENE FENDT is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. He is the author of two books, For What May I Hope? Thinking with Kant and Kierkegaard (1990) and Works of Love? Reflections on Works of Love (1990), and numerous journal articles.

DAVID ROZEMA is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. He has published several scholarly articles.