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Reale, Giovanni and Samuel Scolnicov, Editors. New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20050601
Author:Elders, L.J.

REALE, Giovanni and Samuel SCOLNICOV, Editors. New Images of Plato: Dialogues on the Idea of the Good. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2002. 444 pp. Cloth, 59.50 [euro]--This volume comprises twenty-seven papers read at an international colloquium held in Liechtenstein in September 2000. The texts are divided in nine sections, which to a certain extent all deal with Plato's theory of the good as beyond being. A number of scholars reject what they call the esoteric interpretation of Plato advanced by the Tubingen School, others vigorously defend it, others again see Plato as a ...

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