Ascent to the Good: The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Symposium to Republic

By William H F Altman

This study reconsiders Plato's "Socratic" dialogues--Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Euthydemus, Gorgias, and Meno--as parts of an integrated curriculum. By privileging reading order over order of composition, a Platonic pedagogy teaching that the Idea of the Good is a greater object of philosophical concern than what benefits the self is spotlighted.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498574610
• ISBN13: 9781498574617
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"