PLATO,
Philebus. Translated with Notes and Commentary by J.C.B. Gosling.
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975. XXI,238p. Cloth. Small personal library marks on tail spine as well as free endpaper. Name on free endpaper. (Rare).
'This is a rich, and serious discussion of the Philebus.' (...) The meat of the book is in the ninety-page General Commentary particularly in the two sections, dealing with Philebus 16 ff. and 23 ff, which together make up more than half of it. One must applaud, first, the strategy of concentrating of the key philosophical passages and on the question of the coherence of the dialogue as a whole. (...) We may have doubts, some of them serious ones, as to whether those proposed solutions are as superior to their rivals as he maintains. Yet that does not in any way diminish the value of hit detailed discussion of the difficulties those texts contain. The great strengths of the book lie first in its over-all strategy - in its concentration on the philosophically important questions raised in the Philebus - and then in the full exploration of those questions which it provides. The argument is sinewy, dense, often opaque, but also illuminating and suggestive.' (G.E.R. LLOYD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1977, pp.173-5). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.
€ 75.00
(Antiquarian)