TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weierter,Stuart
TI  - Understanding Life and Death through Plato and Socrates: Philosophy as a Confrontation with Eternity
SN  - 9780773418684 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BD21 
U1  - 100180 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lewiston
PB  - Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Essays
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Reference
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record
N2  - It fills in a gap by outlining the ways that Plato and Socrates talk about life and death. There is also a lengthy discussion of how Aristophanes responded with satirical exaggerations of their positions. This author focuses entirely on how death and eternity are integral thematic components of the Platonic dialogues. The contribution is in drawing on copious secondary material to make the argument that all great philosophy must serve as a confrontation with eternity. It must make the audience resolve the issue of their own mortality by confronting our precarious place in the cosmos. Eternity
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