The Platonic Art of Philosophy
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The Platonic Art of Philosophy

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The Platonic Art of Philosophy

About this book

This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialogues; the function of myth (especially the Atlantis myth); Plato's Socratic heritage, especially as played out in his discussions of psychology; and his views of truth and being. Prominent among the dialogues discussed are Euthydemus, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, Theaetetus, Timaeus, Sophist and Laws.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781107038981
eBook ISBN
9781107440128
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Platonic Art of Philosophy
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations and conventions
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter one Macrology and digression
  11. Chapter two Two conceptions of the body in Plato’s Phaedrus
  12. Chapter three Socrates in the Phaedo
  13. Chapter four Socratic intellectualism in the Republic’s central digression
  14. Chapter five Timaeus in the cave
  15. Chapter Six Reflective commentary (1): ‘Socratic’ psychology in Plato’s Republic
  16. Chapter seven Reflective commentary (2): Appearance, reality and the desire for the good
  17. Chapter eight Waving or drowning? Socrates and the sophists on self-knowledge in the Euthydemus
  18. Chapter Nine Why was the Theaetetus written by Euclides?
  19. Chapter ten The Wooden Horse: The Cyrenaics in the Theaetetus
  20. Chapter eleven The Wax Tablet, logic and Protagoreanism
  21. Chapter twelve A form that ‘is’ of what ‘is not’: Existential einai in Plato’s Sophist
  22. Chapter thirteen Truth and story in the Timaeus-Critias
  23. Chapter fourteen The Atlantis poem in the Timaeus-Critias
  24. Chapter fifteen Friendship and justice in the Laws
  25. Bibliography
  26. Christopher Rowe
  27. Index of ancient passages
  28. Index of topics

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