Tushar Irani

Plato on the Value of Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Plato's views on what an 'art of argument' should look like, investigating the relationship between psychology and rhetoric.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781107181984
• ISBN-10: 1107181984
• Artikelnr.: 47721843

Autorenporträt

Tushar Irani is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Gorgias: 1. Socrates and Gorgias on the aims of argument
2. Towards an art of argument
3. The contradictions of Callicles
4. Pleasure, virtue, and the human good
Part II. The Phaedrus: 5. Socrates and Lysias on the aims of love
6. Loving wisdom
7. Loving others
8. The self-motion of the soul
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index locorum
Subject index.