Description
M. M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of conversation to philosophical method is taken here to account both for how we should read the ancients and for the connections between argument, knowledge, and virtue in the texts in question. The book argues that we should attend, consequently, to the reflective dimension of reading and thought; and that this reflection explains both how we should think about the conditions for perception and knowledge, and how those conditions, in turn, inform the theories of value of both Plato and Aristotle.
About the Author
Mary Margaret McCabe works on ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine; she has published mostly on Plato but also on the Presocratics, on Aristotle, and on the Stoics. She was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1990; in 1990 she moved to King's College London, and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy there from 1998 to 2014. She has spent extended periods in the USA (at Princeton, Harvard, and elsewhere) and will be the 2016-7 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, delivering the Sather lectures. She is much engaged with the nature and future of the universities, and of philosophy in the universities; she was President of the British Philosophical Association from 2009 to 2012, and will be the President of the Mind Association in 2016-7.
Reviews
[A] richly complex book... This collection of essays should be read by anyone interested not just in ancient philosophy, but by graduate students in other fields to show them how to think critically and, if necessary, upset the proverbial apple cart. * Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami *
Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention the effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE *
This is a book from which anyone tempted to pick up their Plato and wrestle with him will greatly profit. * Malcolm Schofield, MindMalcolm Schofield, Mind *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198732884
Author Mary Margaret McCabe
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 758g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 163mm * 30mm
About the Author
Mary Margaret McCabe works on ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine; she has published mostly on Plato but also on the Presocratics, on Aristotle, and on the Stoics. She was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1990; in 1990 she moved to King's College London, and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy there from 1998 to 2014. She has spent extended periods in the USA (at Princeton, Harvard, and elsewhere) and will be the 2016-7 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, delivering the Sather lectures. She is much engaged with the nature and future of the universities, and of philosophy in the universities; she was President of the British Philosophical Association from 2009 to 2012, and will be the President of the Mind Association in 2016-7.
Reviews
[A] richly complex book... This collection of essays should be read by anyone interested not just in ancient philosophy, but by graduate students in other fields to show them how to think critically and, if necessary, upset the proverbial apple cart. * Clifford Cunningham, Sun News Miami *
Appropriate for serious students of Plato, this book requires keen intellectual attention the effort is rewarded by extraordinary insights into the genius of Plato's dialogues. Excellent bibliography and index. Highly recommended. * P. A. Streveler, CHOICE *
This is a book from which anyone tempted to pick up their Plato and wrestle with him will greatly profit. * Malcolm Schofield, MindMalcolm Schofield, Mind *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198732884
Author Mary Margaret McCabe
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 758g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 163mm * 30mm
