Description
Plato 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 man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history.This second edition of the 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 Contents
1 Introduction - Gail Fine2 Plato in His Time and Place - Malcolm Schofield3 The Platonic Corpus - T.H. Irwin4 Plato's Ways of Writing - Mary Margaret McCabe5 The Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro: The Examined and Virtuous Life - Hugh Benson6 The Protagoras and Gorgias - James Warren7 The Meno - Lindsay Judson8 The Phaedo on Philosophy and the Soul - Luca Castagnoli9 The Republic - Dominic Scott10 The Parmenides: A Reconsideration of Forms - Sandra Peterson11 The Theaetetus - Mitzi Lee12 The Timaeus on the Principles of Cosmology - Thomas Johansen13 The Sophist on Statements, Predication, and Falsehood- Lesley Brown14 The Philebus - Constance Meinwald15 The Laws - Susan Sauvé Meyer16 The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Socrates - Gareth Matthews17 Socratic Ethics and Moral Psychology - Daniel Devereux18 Plato's Epistemology - C.C.W. Taylor19 Plato's Metaphysics - Verity Harte20 Plato's Philosophy of Language - Paolo Crivelli21 Plato on the Soul - Hendrik Lorenz22 Plato's Ethics - Julia Annas23 Plato on Love - Richard Kraut24 Plato's Politics - Christopher Bobonich25 Plato on Education and Art - Rachana Kamtekar26 Plato's Theology - David Sedley27 Plato and Aristotle in the Academy - Christopher Shields28 Plato and Platonism - Charles Brittain
