A History Of Greek Philosophy, Volume 3 by Woody Guthrie

A meticulous, scholarly account that traces the emergence of classical Greek thought in the fourth century BCE, focusing on the development of Socratic and Platonic ideas; it closely examines the surviving dialogues and arguments to reconstruct positions on knowledge, metaphysics (notably the theory of Forms), ethics and political philosophy, and situates those doctrines in their historical and intellectual context to show how dialectical method and Platonic theory transformed earlier Presocratic concerns and shaped the subsequent tradition.