Ebook: Plato: A Very Short Introduction

Preliminaries; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Humans and beasts: understanding ourselves; 2 Why do we read Plato's Republic?; 3 The happy life, ancient and modern; 4 Reason, knowledge and scepticism; 5 Logic and reality; 6 When did it all begin? (and what is it anyway?); Timeline; Further Reading; Notes; Index.;Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book aims to give readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, and of its wide variety of themes and styles.