TY  - BOOK
AU  - Press,Gerald A.
TI  - Plato : a guide for the perplexed 
T2  - Guides for the perplexed
SN  - 9780826491763
AV  - B395 .P74 2007
U1  - 184 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London 
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Plato
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234)  and index; Plato's life and works -- The contexts for interpreting Plato's Dialogues -- Sources of perplexity : change -- A brief history of platonism and Plato interpretation -- Dialogue form -- Arguments and ideas, vision and doctrines -- Fables, myths, and stories -- Irony and other forms of humour -- Play and seriousness -- Paradox -- Plato's philosophy : permanence -- Platonic anonymity and the nature of Plato's philosophy -- Persistent themes and Plato's vision -- The platonic path to wisdom -- Help in reading and understanding Plato's Dialogues and his philosophy -- How to read a platonic dialogue -- Summaries of the Dialogues
ER  -