A Companion to Plato [Paperback]

• Covers an exceptionally broad range of subjects from diverse perspectives
  
  
• Contributions are devoted to topics, ranging from perception and knowledge to politics and cosmology
  
  
• Allows readers to see how a position advocated in one of Plato’s dialogues compares with positions advocated in others
  
  
• Permits readers to engage the debate concerning Plato’s philosophical development on particular topics
  
  
• Also includes overviews of Plato’s life, works and philosophical method
  

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

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