Plato: Clitophon
Part of Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
- Real Author: Plato
- Editor: S. R. Slings, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- Date Published: November 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521623681
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The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates' role as an exhorter of other people to engage in philosophy. It was almost certainly intended to bear closely on Plato's Republic and is a fascinating specimen of the philosophical protreptic, an important genre very fashionable at the time. This 1999 volume is a critical edition of this dialogue, in which Professor Slings provides a text based on an examination of all relevant manuscripts and accompanies it with a translation. His extensive introduction studies philosophical exhortation in the classical era, and tries to account for Plato's dialogues in general as a special type of exhortation. The Clitophon is seen as a defence of the Platonic dialogue. The commentary elucidates the Greek and discusses many passages where the meaning is not entirely clear.
Read more- First edition for more than sixty years, and the first ever commentary in English when published
- The very extensive introduction sheds light on several important works of Plato
- Contains full discussion of the dialogue's authenticity
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- Date Published: November 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521623681
- length: 380 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Prolegomena to the Dialogue:
1. Introduction
2. Summary and analysis of composition
3. Is the Clitophon unfinished?
4. The Clitophon as a Short Dialogue
5. The characters of the dialogue
Part II. Meaning and Authenticity:
6. Philosophical protreptic in the fourth century BCE
7. Protreptic in the Clitophon
8. Protreptic in Plato
9. Elenchos in the Clitophon
10. Justice in the Clitophon
11. The meaning of the Clitophon
12. Date and authenticity
Text and translation
Commentary
Appendices: I. The ending of Aristotle's Protrepticus
II. Note on the text
Bibliography
Indexes.
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