Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind (Classical Inter/faces): How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind (Classical Inter/faces)

by Melissa Lane (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $32.28

  Socrates and Plato have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. This book is framed by accounts of modern responses to Socrates and has at its centre chapters exploring the idea of Platonic 'origins' in philosophy and of Platonic 'foundations' for philosophical politics.