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Book Synopsis
Platoâs Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Platoâs corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.

Table of Contents
1.Introduction 1.1Thesis 1.2Versus Vlastos Etc. 1.3Versus Fine, Irwin, and Nehamas 1.4Versus Owen, Gallop, Castañeda, Etc. 1.5Plato, Anti-Plato, and Totalitarianism 2.The Hippias Major 2.1Definitions (287B-289D, 291D, 292C-E, 293C-294D, 299D-300B) 2.2Complexes (300E-303C) 2.3Self-Causation (297A-D, 303E-304A) 2.4Irony (281A, 286C-E, 287B-C, 288A-B, 292C-E, 298C, 304C-E) 2.5Dialogue About Dialogue (282E, 287E, 291D, 296B, 297D, 304D-E) 2.6Versus Woodruff (Definitions) 2.7Summary 3.The Phaedo 3.1 Pleasures (60B-69C) 3.2 Virtues (68D-69B) 3.3 Forms (73D-75A) 3.4 Psyches (73C-76A) 3.5 Mathematics (75C-D) 3.6 Method (63C-64A, 85C-D, 89D-91C) 3.7 Reincarnation (79E-84B) 3.8 Harmony (85E-88B, 92A-93D) 3.9 Opposites (70C-72E, 102A-E, 104B-107D) 3.10 Simplicity (78B-84D) 3.11 Causality (94A-95A, 96A-99D, 100B-102D, 105B-D) 3.12 Versus Bostock I (Forms) 3.13 Versus Bostock II (Virtues) 3.14 Summary 4.The Symposium 4.1Love (199C-212A) 4.2Creation (206B-207E, 208B-209E, 210C-D, 211C, 212A) 4.3Evolution (208E-209B, 210A-E, 211C-D) 4.4Lack (200C-204D, 206A, 207C-D, 212A) 4.5Opposites (199D-200A, 202C-D, 203E-204A, 206C-D, 207A-C) 4.6 Beauty (210E-211C, 211D-E, 212A) 4.7 Speeches upon Speeches (Entire Work) 4.8 Versus Nussbaum (Risk) 4.9 Summary 5.The Republic 5.1 Simonides (331C-332C) 5.2 Internal and External (357A-368C) 5.3 Justice (370A-B, 374A-D, 397E, 430E-431B, 441C-442E, 443B-444B) 5.4 Er (614B-621D) 5.5 God (377E-392C) 5.6 Relativity (472B-E, 475E-D, 476A-480A, 510B-511E, 522C-526A, 583B-588A) 5.7 Dialectic (510B-511C, 532A-537C) 5.8 Sun, Line, Cave (507B-509C, 509D-511E, 514A-520A) 5.9 Versus Reeve (Good) 5.10 Summary 6.The Laws 6.1 Self-Superiority (625E-628E) 6.2 Virtue (631B-D, 689D-E) 6.3 Pleasure (653A-654D, 659D-660A) 6.4 Gymnastics (653A-654A, Book 7) 6.5 Music (653E-656C, 667E-671A, 700A-701C) 6.6 Theater (657E-663D, 700A-701C) 6.7 Education (643A-645C, 653A-673D, 788A-822D) 6.8 Discourse (720A-724A, 880D-E, 885B-899D) 6.9 Crime (859D-864B) 6.10 Labor (704D-705B, 806D-E, 918C-919E) 6.11 Ancestor Worship (656D-657C, 715D-718D) 6.12 The Deluge (677A-682E) 6.13 God (893B-899E) 6.14 God’s Thoughts (895E-897B) 6.15 Versus Bobonich (Non-Philosophers) 6.16 Summary 7.The Lysis? 8.The Gorgias? 9.The Meno? 10.The Protagoras? 11.The Phaedrus? 12.The Timaeus? 13.The Theaetetus? Bibliography

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    Publisher: Hamilton Books
    Publication Date: 3/22/2019 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780761870890, 978-0761870890
    ISBN10: 076187089X
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    Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Idealism Philosophy: logic

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Platoâs Logic analyzes thirteen Platonic works, but it focuses on five of them because these instance the logic most completely. The logic is found to be uniform throughout Platoâs corpus, so it does not evolve after its genesis as a revision of Heraclitus.

    Table of Contents
    1.Introduction 1.1Thesis 1.2Versus Vlastos Etc. 1.3Versus Fine, Irwin, and Nehamas 1.4Versus Owen, Gallop, Castañeda, Etc. 1.5Plato, Anti-Plato, and Totalitarianism 2.The Hippias Major 2.1Definitions (287B-289D, 291D, 292C-E, 293C-294D, 299D-300B) 2.2Complexes (300E-303C) 2.3Self-Causation (297A-D, 303E-304A) 2.4Irony (281A, 286C-E, 287B-C, 288A-B, 292C-E, 298C, 304C-E) 2.5Dialogue About Dialogue (282E, 287E, 291D, 296B, 297D, 304D-E) 2.6Versus Woodruff (Definitions) 2.7Summary 3.The Phaedo 3.1 Pleasures (60B-69C) 3.2 Virtues (68D-69B) 3.3 Forms (73D-75A) 3.4 Psyches (73C-76A) 3.5 Mathematics (75C-D) 3.6 Method (63C-64A, 85C-D, 89D-91C) 3.7 Reincarnation (79E-84B) 3.8 Harmony (85E-88B, 92A-93D) 3.9 Opposites (70C-72E, 102A-E, 104B-107D) 3.10 Simplicity (78B-84D) 3.11 Causality (94A-95A, 96A-99D, 100B-102D, 105B-D) 3.12 Versus Bostock I (Forms) 3.13 Versus Bostock II (Virtues) 3.14 Summary 4.The Symposium 4.1Love (199C-212A) 4.2Creation (206B-207E, 208B-209E, 210C-D, 211C, 212A) 4.3Evolution (208E-209B, 210A-E, 211C-D) 4.4Lack (200C-204D, 206A, 207C-D, 212A) 4.5Opposites (199D-200A, 202C-D, 203E-204A, 206C-D, 207A-C) 4.6 Beauty (210E-211C, 211D-E, 212A) 4.7 Speeches upon Speeches (Entire Work) 4.8 Versus Nussbaum (Risk) 4.9 Summary 5.The Republic 5.1 Simonides (331C-332C) 5.2 Internal and External (357A-368C) 5.3 Justice (370A-B, 374A-D, 397E, 430E-431B, 441C-442E, 443B-444B) 5.4 Er (614B-621D) 5.5 God (377E-392C) 5.6 Relativity (472B-E, 475E-D, 476A-480A, 510B-511E, 522C-526A, 583B-588A) 5.7 Dialectic (510B-511C, 532A-537C) 5.8 Sun, Line, Cave (507B-509C, 509D-511E, 514A-520A) 5.9 Versus Reeve (Good) 5.10 Summary 6.The Laws 6.1 Self-Superiority (625E-628E) 6.2 Virtue (631B-D, 689D-E) 6.3 Pleasure (653A-654D, 659D-660A) 6.4 Gymnastics (653A-654A, Book 7) 6.5 Music (653E-656C, 667E-671A, 700A-701C) 6.6 Theater (657E-663D, 700A-701C) 6.7 Education (643A-645C, 653A-673D, 788A-822D) 6.8 Discourse (720A-724A, 880D-E, 885B-899D) 6.9 Crime (859D-864B) 6.10 Labor (704D-705B, 806D-E, 918C-919E) 6.11 Ancestor Worship (656D-657C, 715D-718D) 6.12 The Deluge (677A-682E) 6.13 God (893B-899E) 6.14 God’s Thoughts (895E-897B) 6.15 Versus Bobonich (Non-Philosophers) 6.16 Summary 7.The Lysis? 8.The Gorgias? 9.The Meno? 10.The Protagoras? 11.The Phaedrus? 12.The Timaeus? 13.The Theaetetus? Bibliography

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