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Путеводитель к благой жизни. Рецензия на книгу: Plato's Philebus: A Philosophical Discussion. Ed. by P. Dimas, Russel E. Jones, and G. R. Lear. Oxford University Press, 2019.
This book results from an international seminar held in 2015 in Norway within the Plato Dialogue Project. This project, which gives name to a new book series with Oxford University Press, pursues the aim of becoming “a central research forum for Platonic scholarship.” Thus Philebus, once said to be “gnarled and knotted,” inaugurates this series at the same time taking its place among “extraordinarily creative and profound” works of philosophy, being explicitly compared to Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The papers collected in this volume largely justify this laudatory description by highlighting Plato’s innovative solutions in the fields of dialectic, ontology, cosmology, and ethics. Though the “philosophical discussion” has indeed turned out to be rich and multifarious, questions related to Philbeus’s historical and philosophical context are not touched upon, thus leaving the reader wonder whence the notorious “knots” originated.