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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of important essays on Plato and Socrates. This collection displays author's characteristic combination of analytical rigor and sensitivity to the literary form and dramatic effect of Plato's work. It discusses Plato's representation of Socrates as a model of authentic human goodness.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionISocrates: Questions of Goodness and Method1Meno's Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher32Socratic Intellectualism273What Did Socrates Teach and to Whom Did He Teach It?594Voices of Silence: On Gregory Vlastos's Socrates835Eristic, Antilogic, Sophistic, Dialectic: Plato's Demarcation of Philosophy from Sophistry108IIPlato: Questions of Metaphysics and Epistemology6On Parmenides' Three Ways of Inquiry1257Plato on the Imperfection of the Sensible World1388Confusing Universals and Particulars in Plato's Early Dialogues1599Self-Predication and Plato's Theory of Forms17610Participation and Predication in Plato's Later Thought19611Episteme and Logos in Plato's Later Thought224IIIPlato: Questions of Beauty and the Arts12Plato on Imitation and Poetry in Republic X25113Plato and the Mass Media279IVPlato: Individual Works14The Symposium30315The Republic31616The Phaedrus329Index of Passages Cited359General Index365
