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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Other Ancient Authors
Other Abbreviations
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION
1. Plato’s Life – Historical and Intellectual Context
Plato’s life
Aristophanes and intellectuals
Education (paideia)
Eleatics
Isocrates and logography
Orality and literacy
Poetry (epic and lyric)
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Pythagoreans
Rhetoric and speechmaking
Socrates (historical)
Socratics (other than Plato)
The sophists
2. The Dialogues
The platonic corpus and manuscript tradition
Alcibiades I
The Apology of Socrates
Charmides
Clitophon
Cratylus
Crito
Dubia and Spuria
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Hippias Major
Hippias Minor
Ion
Laches
Laws
Letters
Lysis
Menexenus
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Politicus (Statesman)
Protagoras
Republic
Sophist
Symposium
Theaetetus
Theages
Timaeus and Critias
3. Important Features of the Dialogues
Anonymity
Argument
Character (feature)
Drama
History
Humour
Irony
Language
Literary composition
Musical structure of the Dialogues
Myth
Pedagogical structure of the Dialogues
Pedimental structure of the Dialogues
Play
Proleptic composition
Socrates (the character)
4. Topics and Themes Treated in the Dialogues
Account
Aesthetics
Akrasia (incontinence, weakness of will)
Antilogy and eristics (eristic)
Appearance and reality (reality)
Appetite
Argument
Art (technê)
Beauty (kalon)
Being and becoming (on, onta; gignesthai)
Cause (aitia)
Cave, the allegory of the
Character (topic)
City (polis)
Convention
Cosmos (kosmos)
Cross examination
Daimôn
Death
Desire (appetite, epithumia)
Dialectic (dialektikê)
Divided line
Education
Elenchus (cross examination, refutation)
Epistemology (knowledge)
Eristic
Erôs
Ethics
Eudaimonia
Excellence (virtue, aretê)
Forms (eidos, idea)
Friendship (philia)
Goodness (the Good, agathon)
Happiness (eudaimonia)
Idea
Image (eikôn)
Imitation
Incontinence
Inspiration
Intellectualism
Justice (dikaion, dikaiosynê)
Knowledge
Language
Law (convention, nomos)
Logic
Logos (account, argument, definition, statement)
Love (erôs)
Madness and possession
Mathematics (mathêmatikê)
Medicine (iatrikê)
Metaphysics
Method
Mimêsis (imitation)
Music
Myth (muthos)
Nature (phusis)
Nomos
Non-propositional knowledge
The One (to hen)
Ontology (metaphysics)
Paiderastia (pederasty)
Participation
Perception and sensation (aisthêsis, aisthanomai) (sensation)
Philosophy and the philosopher
Phusis
Piety (eusebeia, hosios)
Pleasure (hêdonê)
Poetry (poiêsis)
Polis
Politics and the figure of the Politicus
Reality
Reason
Recollection (anamnêsis)
Refutation
Rhetoric (rhetorikê)
Self-knowledge
Sensation
Sophists
Soul (psychê)
The sun simile
Theology
Virtue
Vision
Weakness of will
Women
Writing (topic)
5. Later Reception, Interpretation and Influence of Plato and the Dialogues
Section A: The interpretation and influence of Plato in the ancient world
Ancient hermeneutics
Aristotle
Academy of Athens, ancient history of
Jewish Platonism (ancient)
Neoplatonism and its diaspora
Section B: The influence of Plato in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Medieval Islamic Platonism
Medieval Jewish Platonism
Medieval Christian Platonism
Renaissance Platonism
The Cambridge Platonists
Section C: The influence and interpretation of Plato in modern and contemporary philosophy
Early modern philosophy: from Descartes to Berkeley
Nineteenth-century Plato scholarship
Nineteenth-century Platonic scholarship
Developmentalism
Compositional chronology
Analytic approaches to Plato
Vlastosian approaches
Continental approaches
Straussian readings of Plato
Plato’s ‘unwritten doctrines’
Esotericism
The Tübingen approach
Anti-Platonism, from ancient to modern
Bibliography
Index
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