Charles D Kahn

Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue: The Return to the Philosophy of Nature

Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framewor...

The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary

Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic view of human existence, a theory of language which sees ambiguity as a device for the expression of multiple meaning, and a vision of human life and de...

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form

This book offers a new interpretation of Plato's early and middle dialogues as the expression of a unified philosophical vision. Whereas the traditional view sees the dialogues as marking successive stages in Plato's philosophical development, we may more legitimately read them as reflecting an arti...

Essays on Being

This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems, one linguistic and one historical and philosophical. The linguistic problem co...

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander’s thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists.

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

A fascinating portrait of the Pythagorean tradition, including a substantial account of the Neo-Pythagorean revival, and ending with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.

An introduction to hominology: An integrated view of mankind and self

Hardback

The Verb 'Be' In Ancient Greek

A reprint, with new introductory essay, of the D. Reidel edition of 1973.This reissue of Charles Kahn's classic work includes a substantial new introductory essay, which presents a reformulation of the theory of syntactic and semantic unity for the system of uses of the verb be in Greek (conceived p...

Charles N. Kahn III

Charles N. ("Chip") Kahn III (b. 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), whose ...

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form

Plato and the Socratic Dialogue : The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form

Working Makes Sense

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History

The Verb Be in Ancient Greek