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Plato's Charmides (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato) by Raphael Woolf is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Plato's Charmides (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato) about?
Plato's Charmides is a rich mix of drama and argument. Raphael Woolf offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements that pays close attention to its complex and layered structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato. He thus aims to present a compelling and unified interpretation of the dialogue as a whole. The book mounts a strong case for the formal separation of Plato the author from his character Socrates, and for the Charmides as a Platonic defence of the written text a
Who reads Plato's Charmides (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Raphael Woolf
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009308168
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Ancient & Classical, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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