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Index
Title
Dedication
Contents
Praise for Plato: a complete introduction
About the Author
Reference convention
How to use this book
1 The Presocratics and the beginning of philosophy
The birth of Western philosophy
The time of myth
Hesiod and Homer
The Materialists
The Milesians
The polis
Thales
The ontological superiority of ‘Being’
Anaximander and Anaximenes
2 Who was Socrates?
Socrates the man
The teachings of Socrates
Concern for ethical issues
The Sophists
The Socratic method
The scapegoat
3 Who was Plato?
Plato’s world
Plato: a life
Plato’s works
4 The Forms
The Analogy of the Cave
The path to enlightenment
The Realm of the Forms
Criticisms of the Forms
5 Knowledge, opinion and ignorance
Protagoras and relativism
Heraclitus and change
The philosopher defined
The roots of knowledge
What does it mean to know?
The role of reason
The soul
The Cosmic Soul
6 How are we to live?
Justice
Glaucon and the Myth of Gyges
The soul of the state
The ideal state
The ‘City of Pigs’
The ‘Noble Lie’
The just state and the just individual
The healthy soul
7 The Philosopher-King
The three polis
The critique of democracy
The true philosopher
Education
The four imperfect societies
The root of all evil
8 Love and friendship
Pederasty
Lysis
Phaedrus
9 In praise of love: Symposium
The setting
The first three speeches
The speech of Aristophanes
Agathon’s praise of love
Socrates’ speech
Alcibiades barges in
10 Gorgias
Gorgias
The setting
11 Timaeus
The setting
Timaeus and organicism
The Demiurge
The universe and its natural state
The cosmos as animate
The Great Chain of Being
Being ethical
12 The war between philosophy and poetry and the Myth of Er
Republic Book III
Republic Book X
The Myth of Er
13 Plato’s legacy
Aristotle
The city of Alexandria
Neoplatonism
Muslim philosophers
Christian philosophers
Modern contributors
Plato’s writings
Answers
Copyright
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