This text begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd "theory of forms", and concludes by revealing how Plato's philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum and Jacques Derrida.
- ISBN10 6611372083
- ISBN13 9786611372088
- Publish Date 1 January 2005 (first published 1 March 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Icon Books Limited
- Format eBook
- Pages 176
- Language English