Plato. - GOSLING, J.C.B.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Mr. Gosling has written a very argumentative and densely packed book, evidently and at points confessedly provoked by ideas (...) currently canvassed by philosophical interpreters of Plato. (...) the result is a decidedly breathless, intermittently esoteric, and sometimes obscurely orchestrated display of ingenious interpretative moves and counter-moves. This is a considerable pity, for there are quite a lot of good things in 'Plato': not much, perhaps, that will strike the reader as secure, freshly penetrating insight, but a good deal of vigorous and intelligent discussion of central problems in Plato, advanced in the service of an interesting (...) view of the metaphysics of the middle-period dialogues. (...) He begins with a splendid chapter entitled 'Moral Scepticism', in which he examines the strategy Plato adopts in the 'Republic' to prove that the just life is best. This has been the topic of a considerable amount of recent work: gosling provides what seems to me the best general treatment of it avail...
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London/Boston, 1973. VIII,319p. Cloth. Cover partly discoloured. A few pen strikes. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper.Antiquarian Titel: Plato. Auteur: GOSLING, J.C.B.,
'Mr. Gosling has written a very argumentative and densely packed book, evidently and at points confessedly provoked by ideas (...) currently canvassed by philosophical interpreters of Plato. (...) the result is a decidedly breathless, intermittently esoteric, and sometimes obscurely orc...
'Mr. Gosling has written a very argumentative and densely packed book, evidently and at points confessedly provoked by ideas (...) currently canvassed by philosophical interpreters of Plato. (...) the result is a decidedly breathless, intermittently esoteric, and sometimes obscurely orc...
