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Author:   Mary Margaret McCabe (King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.758kg
ISBN:  

9780198732884

ISBN 10:   0198732880
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   07 May 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1: Introduction I On dialectic and method 2: Heraclitus and the art of paradox 3: 'The moving posset stands still': Heraclitus fragment 125 4: Parmenides' dilemma 5: Myth, allegory, and argument in Plato 6: Dialectic is as dialectic does 7: Does your Plato bite? 8: Unity in the Parmenides: the unity of the Parmenides II On knowledge and virtue in Plato 9: Looking inside Charmides' cloak 10: 'Escaping one's own notice knowing': Meno's paradox again 11: From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic? 12: Indifference readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics 13: Out of the labyrinth: Plato's attack on consequentialism III On Aristotle's conversations with Plato 14: 'Perceiving that we see and hear': Aristotle on Plato on judgement and reflection 15: Some conversations with Plato: Aristotle, Metaphysics Z. 13-16 16: 1. With mirrors or without: self-perception in Eudemian Ethics 7.12 Bibliography of works cited Index locorum General Index

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Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attentionthe effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended. P. A. Streveler, CHOICE

This is a book from which anyone tempted to pick up their Plato and wrestle with him will greatly profit. * Malcolm Schofield, Mind * Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention the effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE * [A] richly complex book... This collection of essays should be read by anyone interested not just in ancient philosophy, but by graduate students in other fields to show them how to think critically and, if necessary, upset the proverbial apple cart. * Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami *

Author Information

Mary Margaret McCabe works on ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine; she has published mostly on Plato but also on the Presocratics, on Aristotle, and on the Stoics. She was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1990; in 1990 she moved to King's College London, and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy there from 1998 to 2014. She has spent extended periods in the USA (at Princeton, Harvard, and elsewhere) and will be the 2016-7 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, delivering the Sather lectures. She is much engaged with the nature and future of the universities, and of philosophy in the universities; she was President of the British Philosophical Association from 2009 to 2012, and will be the President of the Mind Association in 2016-7.

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