The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been thoroughly revised and updated by their original authors. The volume covers the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. Plato's dialogues are approached as unified works and considered within their intellectual context, and the revised introduction suggests a way of reading the dialogues that attends to the differences between them while also tracing their interrelations. The result is a rich and wide-ranging volume which will be valuable for all students and scholars of Plato.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato's philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

About the Author
Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.


Book Information
ISBN 9781108457262
Author David Ebrey
Format Paperback
Page Count 520
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 900g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 151mm * 32mm