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Index
Cover
Series page
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Prologue Why Think about Plato?
Part I: Why Plato Wrote
1: Who Was Plato?
2: The Importance of Symbols in Human Life
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Against Writing
2.3 The Hole in the Argument
2.4 Spotting the Defense of Philosophical Writing
2.5 A Sociology of Symbols
2.6 The Psychological Power of Symbols
3: The Philosopher as Model-Maker
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Discovering a Defensible Kind of Philosophical Writing
3.3 Imitators vs. Constitution-Painters
3.4 The Necessary and Sufficient Criterion of Philosophical Writing
4: The Philosopher as Shadow-Maker
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Salvaging Shadows
4.3 The Meaning of Pragmatic Efficacy
4.4 The Sources of Pragmatic Efficacy
4.5 The Noble Lie
4.6 Why Plato Wrote
5: What Plato Wrote
Introduction
5.2 Plato’s Choice
5.3 Platonic Dialogues: A Multipurpose Genre
5.4 The Republic as Theoretical Model
5.5 Plato Politikos
6: How Plato Lived
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Seventh Letter on Writing
6.3 The Seventh Letter on Ways of Life
Part II: What Plato Did
7: The Case for Influence
7.1 Philosophy in Politics
7.2 The Case for Influence
7.3 A Culture War
8: Culture War Emergent
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Politics of the 350s and 340s
8.3 The Emergence of the Culture War, or the Man with the Good Memory
9: Culture War Concluded
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Politics of the 330s
9.3 Who Was Fighting Whom?
9.4 What Were Lycurgus and Demosthenes Fighting About?
9.5 Why Fight over Plato?
9.6 The End of the Culture War
9.7 Conclusion
Epilogue And to My Colleagues
Appendix 1: The Relationship between Paradigms and Forms
Appendix 2: A Second Tri-partite Division of the Soul?
Appendix 3: Miso- Compounds in Greek Literature
Notes
References
Further Reading
Index
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