Bøker av Charles H. (University of Pennsylvania) Kahn

Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. In this book these six diverse and difficult dialogues are considered together as aspects of Plato's project for reformulating his theory of Forms to apply to the philosophy of nature.

In this series of essays published over forty years Charles Kahn explicates the ancient Greek concept of Being. His linguistic aim of explaining the meaning of the verb einai is intertwined with his historical and philosophical project of understanding how the concept came to be central to Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle.

This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. The magnificent literary achievement of the dialogues can be fully appreciated only from the viewpoint of a unitarian reading of the philosophical content.