Discovering Plato

alexandre koyré leonora cohen rosenfield

A compact and lucid introduction to the work of Plato by an outstanding French scholar. Without attempting either an exposition or a full interpretation of Plato´s philosophy, the author draws on four of the great dialogues (Theaetetus, Meno, Protagoras, Republic) for illustrative material. Emphasizing the union of politics and philosophy in Plato, Koyré shows how the reader must find his own solutions to the philosophical problems raised in the dialogues.

Genres philosophy

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1945

This edition

Format: 118 pages, Paperback
Published: January 28, 1973 by Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231085076
ASIN: 0231085079
Language: English

About the author

alexandre koyré

Aleksandr Vladimirović Kojre, published as Alexandre Koyré was a philosopher and historian of science. He contributed to the development of the history of science in France and to its diffusion in the United States after the Second World War.

In the 1930's, Koyré began the research that made him one of the most eminent historians of twentieth century scientific thought, the first phase of which ended before the Second World War with the publication of the three volumes of Galilean Studies. Koiré became one of the protagonists of French historical epistemology, a new discipline that claimed to study the history of scientific thought as such and as a whole.