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Author Alican, Necip Fikri.

Title Rethinking Plato : a Cartesian quest for the real Plato / Necip Fikri Alican.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (620 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Value Inquiry Book Series ; v. 251
Value inquiry book series.
Summary No new book on Plato can surprise Plato scholars. For there is nothing new under the sun, nor inside the cave. We have grown complacent in our preconceptions of Plato, habitually adopting the web of belief that comes with the canonical corpus. Yet it is not the web itself that stands in the way of progress, but the tendency to adopt it without question. Rethinking Plato is, as the subtitle suggests, a Cartesian quest for the real Plato. What makes it Cartesian is that it looks for Plato independently of the prevailing paradigms on where we are supposed to find him. The result of the quest is a.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Plato -- Aesthetics.
Plato.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Ancient.
Aesthetics, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Alican, Necip Fikri. Rethinking Plato. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012 9789401208123
ISBN 9789401208123 (electronic book)
9401208123 (electronic book)
9789042035379
9042035374