Plato the Myth Maker

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2001
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In this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. He also contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy.

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In this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of "muthos" in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. He also contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the "logos" of philosophy.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 05 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0226075192
ISBN 13: 9780226075198