Understanding Plato (OPUS)

About this book

This incisive book fills the longstanding need for a sound reliable and balanced guide to the whole of Platos philosophical work. Melling describes the different stages in Platos philosophical development introduces his different methods and styles of philosophy and explains why the debates were important then and what sense we can make of them now. Against the background of the ancient Greek world Melling illuminates Plato the man his writings and above all why his ideas should be considered important two thousand years after his death.