The Phaedo: A Platonic labyrinth

By Ronna Burger

Book Overview

Since antiquity the Phaedo has been considered the source of "the twin pillars of Platonism" -- the theory of ideas and the immortality of the soul. Burger's attempt to trace the underlying argument of the work as a whole leads to a radical rethinking of the status of those doctrines

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300031637
• ISBN13: 9780300031638
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.