Plato

Gorgias, Menexenus and Protagoras
Critical Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-521-83729-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens. Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions. In the Protagoras, another important contribution to moral and political philosophy in its own right, Socrates takes on leading intellectuals (the 'sophists') of the later fifth century BC and their pretensions to knowledge. The dialogues are introduced and annotated by Malcolm Schofield, a leading authority on ancient Greek political philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schofield, Malcolm

Weitere Mitwirkende

Griffith, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial note; Introduction; Principal dates; A guide to further reading; 1. Gorgias; 2. Menexenus; 3. Protagoras; Index of names; General index.

Über Autor(innen)

Griffith, Tom
Tom Griffith has also translated Plato's The Republic, Symposium, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Phaedrus.

Schofield, Malcolm
Malcolm Schofield is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.