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Interpreting Plato's Dialogues introduces readers to some key problems in understanding Plato's writings, and explores in-depth and critically the various ways of approaching Plato.
The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a complex puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy and the imitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new, unconventional i.
This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider under…
Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they believed that a clear understanding of the nature of the world would help to eliminate this fear for if we recognize that the universe…