Plato’s Stranger

Plato’s Stranger

Rodolphe Gasché

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State University of New York Press
Año de edición:
2023
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Filosofía occidental: antigua, hasta c. 500
ISBN:
9781438490342
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Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato’s late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner-the other-represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

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