The Cambridge companion to Plato /

Plato (424/3-348/7 B.C.) stands at the head of the Western philosophical tradition, the first to write on a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today under such headings as metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory and the philosophies of art, love, language, mathematics,...

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Other Authors: Ebrey, David, 1978- (Editor), Kraut, Richard, 1944- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the study of Plato / David Ebrey and Richard Kraut
  • Plato in his context / T. H. Irwin
  • Stylometry and chronology / Leonard Brandwood
  • Plato's Socrates and his conception of philosophy / Eric Brown
  • Being good at being bad: Plato's Hippias Minor / Agnes Callard
  • Inquiry in the Meno / Gail Fine
  • Why eros? / Suzanne Obdrzalek
  • Plato on philosophy and the mysteries / G̀€bor Betegh
  • The unfolding account of the forms in the Phaedo / David Ebrey
  • The defense of justice in Plato's republic / Richard Kraut
  • Plato on poetic creativity: A revision / Elizabeth Asmis
  • Betwixt and between: Plato on mathematical objects / Henry Mendell
  • Another good-bye to the third man / Constance C. Meinwald
  • Plato's Sophist on false statements / Michael Frede
  • Cosmology and human nature in the Timaeus / Emily Fletcher
  • The fourfold classification and Socrates' craft analogy in the Philebus / Verity Harte
  • Law in Plato's late politics / Rachana Kamtekar and Rachel Singpurwalla.