Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii Preface xii
Abbreviations xiv
1 The Life of Plato of Athens 1 DEBRA NAILS
2 Interpreting Plato 13 CHRISTOPHER ROWE
3 The Socratic Problem 25 WILLIAM J. PRIOR
Part I PLATONIC METHOD AND THE DIALOGUE FORM 37
4 Form and the Platonic Dialogues 39 MARY MARGARET MCCABE
5 The Socratic Elenchus 55 CHARLES M. YOUNG
6 Platonic Definitions and Forms 70 R. M. DANCY
7 Plato’s Method of Dialectic 85 HUGH H. BENSON
Part II PLATONIC EPISTEMOLOGY 101
8 Socratic Ignorance 103 GARETH B. MATTHEWS
9 Plato on Recollection 119 CHARLES KAHN
10 Plato: A Theory of Perception or a Nod to Sensation? 133 DEBORAH K. W. MODRAK
11 Knowledge and the Forms in Plato 146 MICHAEL FEREJOHN
Part III PLATONIC METAPHYSICS 163
12 The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato 165 TERRY PENNER
13 Problems for Forms 184 MARY LOUISE GILL
14 The Role of Cosmology in Plato’s Philosophy 199 CYNTHIA FREELAND
15 Plato on Language 214 DAVID SEDLEY
16 Plato and Mathematics 228 MICHAEL J. WHITE
17 Platonic Religion 244 MARK L. MCPHERRAN
Part IV PLATONIC PSYCHOLOGY 261
18 The Socratic Paradoxes 263 THOMAS C. BRICKHOUSE and NICHOLAS D. SMITH
19 The Platonic Soul 278 FRED D. MILLER, JR.
20 Plato on Eros and Friendship 294 C. D. C. REEVE
21 Plato on Pleasure as the Human Good 308 GERASIMOS SANTAS
Part V PLATONIC ETHICS, POLITICS, AND AESTHETICS 323
22 The Unity of the Virtues 325 DANIEL DEVEREUX
23 Plato on Justice 341 DAVID KEYT
24 Plato’s Concept of Goodness 356 NICHOLAS WHITE
25 Plato on the Law 373 SUSAN SAUVÉ MEYER
26 Plato and the Arts 388 CHRISTOPHER JANAWAY
Part VI PLATONIC LEGACY 401
27 Learning about Plato from Aristotle 403 CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS
28 Plato and Hellenistic Philosophy 418 A. A. LONG
29 Plato’s Influence on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Philosophy 434 SARA AHBEL-RAPPE
Index 452