Platonic Errors : Plato, a Kind of Poet (Contributions in Philosophy)
by Gene Fendt
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Gene Fendt is the Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney, where he has been teaching for over thirty years. He reads Camus' Plague every year alongside Hamlet, Aristotle's Ethics and Kant's Foundations in his introductory ethics course. He has published six other books and numerous articles on a wide range show more of figures and issues including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Hume, Kant, and Kierkegaard, as well as Camus, Pinter, Stoppard and Shakespeare. He has also won a number of awards for creative writing in poetry and playwrighting. show less
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