Ascent to the Beautiful
Subtitle: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781793615961
Subjects: History: Ancient / Greece; Philosophy: Essays; Dialogues (Plato)
Description: This book is a study of Plato's most elementary dialogues, arranged in relation to Reading Order as opposed to order of composition. Beginning with the theatrical Protagoras and reaching a mountaintop in Symposium, the dialogues between them-Alcibiades, Lovers, Hippias, Ion, and Menexenus-introduce the student to both philosophy and Platonism.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface: Plato the Teacher and Reading Order Introduction: Schleiermacher and Plato 1 <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras as Gateway §1. <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras before <span style="font-style:italic;">Alcibiades §2. Xenophon before Plato §3. Taking the Measure of <span style="font-style:italic;">Protagoras §4. Interpreting the Misinterpretation of Simonides 2 The Elementary Dialogues: the <span style="font-style:italic;">Alcibiades dyad and <span style="font-style:italic;">Lovers §5.; title: Catching Sight of the Sea Epilogue: Imagining Plato's Academy Bibliography Index <span style="font-style:italic;">Index locorum <span style="font-style:italic;">Index verborum About the Author