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9781844835089

Coffee with Plato

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  • ISBN13:

    9781844835089

  • ISBN10:

    1844835081

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-09-01
  • Publisher: Duncan Baird

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Around 428 BC, Plato was born into one of Athens's most aristocratic families, and ultimately gathered around him some of the greatest minds of his age. Travel back to ancient Greece with Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Donald R. Moor and author Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) to meet this legendary thinker. In addition to expanding upon his famous allegory of the cave, Plato talks about learning through dialogue, the primacy of good and the price of wrong doing, democracy, freedom and censorship, women's equality, love, and mathematics, and the search for truth.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 6
Introductionp. 10
Plato (428/427-348/347BC): His Life in Shortp. 12
Now Let's Start Talking...
The Making of a Philosopherp. 28
Learning through Dialoguep. 37
The Primacy of the Goodp. 45
The Price of Wrongdoingp. 51
Democracy and Philosopher-Kingsp. 56
Freedom and Censorshipp. 63
On Women's Equalityp. 74
Platonic Lovep. 80
Misadventure in Sicilyp. 94
Brilliant Mindsp. 100
Platonism-The Theory of Formsp. 107
Our Way Out of the Cavep. 116
Mathematics and the Search for Truthp. 122
Platonism Reconsidered?p. 133
Refill? Further Reading and Appreciationp. 141
Indexp. 142
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