Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues
ISBN: 9780791425107
出版社: State University of New York Press
出版年: 1995-08
页数: 218
定价: USD 23.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
This book explains how to read Plato, emphasizing the philosophic importance of the dramatic aspects of the dialogues, and showing that Plato is an ironic thinker and that his irony is deeply rooted in his philosophy.
作者简介
Drew A. Hyland is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College.
目录
Preface
Introduction
1. The Place of Philosophy
2. Republic, Book 2, and the Origins of Political Philosophy
3. Plato's "Three Waves" and the Question of Utopia
4. Irony as Finite Transcendence
5. The Whole Tragedy and Comedy of Philosophy
6. Truth and Finitude: On Heidegger's Reading of Plato
7. But What about the Ideas?
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects