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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| 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.