Title: Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos
Author: Joseph Cropsey
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Copyright Date: 1995-05-15
ISBN: 0226121216
Type: Hardcover
Book condition: Near Fine
Jacket condition: Near Fine

Notes: New, unread copy with a couple minor flaws from shipping. Small bump to bottom of spine, and a surface scratch on back of cover. Otherwise in perfect condition.

About the Book

In this culmination of a lifetime's study, Joseph Cropsey examines the crucial relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe and his moral and political thought.

Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo - in light of their dramatic consecutiveness and thus as a conceptual and dramatic whole. The cosmos depicted by Plato in these dialogues, Cropsey argues, is often unreasonable, and populated by human beings unaided by gods and dealt with equivocally by nature. Masterfully leading the reader through the seven scenes of the drama, Cropsey shows how they are, to an astonishing degree, concerned with the resources available to help us survive in such a world.

This is a world - and a Plato - quite at odds with most other portraits. Much more than a summary of Plato's thinking, this book is an eloquent, sometimes amusing, often moving guide to the paradoxes and insights of Plato's philosophy.

Retail price: $42.00