Rethinking Plato a Cartesian quest for the real Plato
No new book on Plato can surprise Plato scholars. For there is nothing new under the sun, nor inside the cave. We have grown complacent in our preconceptions of Plato, habitually adopting the web of belief that comes with the canonical corpus. Yet it is not the web itself that stands in the way of p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi
2012.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; v.251. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b30952694*spi |
| Sumario: | No new book on Plato can surprise Plato scholars. For there is nothing new under the sun, nor inside the cave. We have grown complacent in our preconceptions of Plato, habitually adopting the web of belief that comes with the canonical corpus. Yet it is not the web itself that stands in the way of progress, but the tendency to adopt it without question. Rethinking Plato is, as the subtitle suggests, a Cartesian quest for the real Plato. What makes it Cartesian is that it looks for Plato independently of the prevailing paradigms on where we are supposed to find him.The result of the quest is a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 620 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9789401208123 |
