Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul / New York Humanities Press, 1974.
First Edition. Hardcover.
A volume in the International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Edited by Ted Honderich.
J. N. Findlay argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the philosopher's mature written work.
CONTENTS:
I. Introductory and Biographical
II. General Sketch of the Eidetic Theory and of its Arithmetized Version
III. The Socratic Dialogues
IV. The Ideological Dialogues: The Meno, Phaedo, Symposium and Phaedrus
V. The Ideological Dialogues: The Republic
VI. The Stoicheiological Dialogues: The Cratylus, Theaetetus and Parmenides
VII. The Stoicheiological Dialogues: The Sophist, Statesman, Philebus and Epistles
VIII. Plato's Philosophy of the Concrete: The Timaeus, Critias, Laws and Epinomis
IX. Appraisal of Platonism and its Influence
Appendix I: Translated Passages Illustrating Plato’s Unwritten Doctrines
Appendix II: Critical Note on the Views of Harold F. Cherniss
Item #901073ISBN: 0710077122
5-3/8 x 9-5/8", red cloth, appendices, index.
Mild fading to spine & a ¼” line of mild fading to front board at spine joint, and a bit of mild bumping to boards at fore-edge, else fine. A bright, clean, tight, square copy without owner’s marks.
Price: $125.00