The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / Jeremy Barris.

Author/creator Barris, Jeremy
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Internal and external connections -- Artificiality and nature (sometimes being is something else) -- Knowledge as intervention : difficulties and solutions -- Philosophical rhetoric -- Knowledge as intervention : advantages -- Variegated texture of truth -- Artificiality of rigorous thought and the artificial dimensions of reality -- Risk of rigorous thought -- Mixture and purity -- What Plato is about : an overview -- Charmides : lust, love, and the problem of knowledge -- Republic : justice, knowledge, and the problem of love -- Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman : the tragicomedy of knowledge, reality, and responsible conduct -- Unevenly even consistency of truth.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.
LCCN 2008037467
ISBN9780823229130 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823229130 (cloth : alk. paper)