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Understanding Plato: The Smart Student’s Guide to the Socratic Dialogues and the RepublicThis book is the first of a series of student companions to the classics of Western philosophy that helps beginning students understand the arguments, ideas and methods of the great moral, social and political philosophers.
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This book is the first of a series of student companions to the classics of Western philosophy that helps beginning students understand the arguments, ideas and methods of the great moral, social and political philosophers.
Editors
Laurence Houlgate
Retired professor of philosophy and author of a new book series for beginning students on the classics of moral and political philosophy.