On Being: Plato (Haines)

Author: David Haines

ISBN: 9781949716672

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Since the beginnings of Western philosophy in ancient Athens, one question has stood above all others: the Question of Being. History’s greatest philosophers have wrestled with this question, and given different answers. In On Being, David Haines surveys the approaches of four of these philosophers to the Question of Being, along with some of their major interpreters: Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Heidegger.This first volume surveys Plato’s approach to the Question of Being.