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Plato: The Midwife's Apprentice (RLE: Plato) by I. M. Crombie is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates is portrayed as a midwife to the intellect, a metaphor for his task as a dialectician as he seeks to help give birth to wisdom. Thus it is that the author refers to Plato as the midwife’s apprentice. This volume represents an attempt to provide a more manageable account of the author’s two volume magnum opus, An Examination of Plato’s Doctrines. An accessible and lucid introduction to Plato’s ideas is provided which nonetheless challenges traditional interpreta
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- I. M. Crombie
- Publisher
- Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415632195
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Reference
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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