Description
Book SynopsisPlato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues, all serving several functions at once: they survey the current academic landscape; express and develop the authors'' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the person many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history.This second edition of he Oxford Handbook of Plato differs in two main ways from the first edition. First, six leading scholars of ancient philosophy have contributed entirely new chapters: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno; Luca Castagnoli on the Phaedo; Susan Sauvé Meyer on the Laws; and David Sedley on Plato''s theology. This new edition therefore covers both dialogues and topics in more depth than the first edition did. Secondly, most of the original chapters have been revised and updated, some in small, others in large, ways.
Table of Contents1 Introduction - Gail Fine 2 Plato in His Time and Place - Malcolm Schofield 3 The Platonic Corpus - T.H. Irwin 4 Plato's Ways of Writing - Mary Margaret McCabe 5 The Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro: The Examined and Virtuous Life - Hugh Benson 6 The Protagoras and Gorgias - James Warren 7 The Meno - Lindsay Judson 8 The Phaedo on Philosophy and the Soul - Luca Castagnoli 9 The Republic - Dominic Scott 10 The Parmenides: A Reconsideration of Forms - Sandra Peterson 11 The Theaetetus - Mitzi Lee 12 The Timaeus on the Principles of Cosmology - Thomas Johansen 13 The Sophist on Statements, Predication, and Falsehood- Lesley Brown 14 The Philebus - Constance Meinwald 15 The Laws - Susan Sauvé Meyer 16 The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Socrates - Gareth Matthews 17 Socratic Ethics and Moral Psychology - Daniel Devereux 18 Plato's Epistemology - C.C.W. Taylor 19 Plato's Metaphysics - Verity Harte 20 Plato's Philosophy of Language - Paolo Crivelli 21 Plato on the Soul - Hendrik Lorenz 22 Plato's Ethics - Julia Annas 23 Plato on Love - Richard Kraut 24 Plato's Politics - Christopher Bobonich 25 Plato on Education and Art - Rachana Kamtekar 26 Plato's Theology - David Sedley 27 Plato and Aristotle in the Academy - Christopher Shields 28 Plato and Platonism - Charles Brittain
