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020			_a9781399612340 _qPaperback
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100	1		_aWilliams, Bernard _eauthor
245	1	0	_aThe Great Philosophers: PLATO / _cBernard Williams.
264		1	_aLONDON" _bOrion Publishing Group, _c2023.
300			_a57 pages : _c18 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_a'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato 'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors' Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philosophic field. Even those thinkers who have rejected Plato's views have found themselves working to an agenda he set. Yet between the neo-platonist interpretations and the anti-platonist reactions, the stuff of 'Platonism' proper has often been obscured. The philosopher himself has not necessarily helped in the matter: at times disconcertingly difficult, at other disarmingly simple, Plato can be an elusive thinker, his meanings hard to pin down. His dialogues are complex and often ironically constructed and do not simply expand his views - which in any case changed and developed over a long life. In this lucid and exciting introductory guide, Bernard Williams takes his reader back to first principles, re-reading the key texts to reveal what the philosopher actually said. The result is a rediscovered Plato: often unexpected, always fascinating and rewarding.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Ancient _zGreece.
650		0	_aPlatonism.
650		0	_aWestern philosophy _xAncient Greece.
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