Contributor
Fine, Gail.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description2 v. ; 21 cm.
Note:-- [v.] 1. Metaphysics and epistemology -- [v.] 2. Ethics, politics, religion, and the soul.
Note:v.1. PLATO I: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY: The Socratic Elenchus / gregory Vlastos -- Socrates' disavowal of knowledge / Gregory Vlastos -- Platonic recollection / Dominic Scott -- Language and reality in Plato's Cratylus / J.L. Ackrill -- The theory of forms / T.H. Irwin -- Plato on the imperfection of the sensible world / Alexander Nehamas -- Separation and immanence in Plato's theory of forms / Daniel t. Devereux -- Knowledge and belief in Republic 5-7 / Gail Fine -- The form of the good in Plato's Republic / Gerasimos Santas -- The logic of the third man / S. Marc Cohen -- Notes on Ryle's Plato / G.E.L. Owen -- Knowledge is perception: Theatetus 151D-184A / M.F. Burnyeat -- Plato on sense-perception and knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186) / John M. Cooper -- Observations on perception in Plato's later dialogues / Michael Frede -- Identity mistakes: Plato and the logical atomists / John McDowell -- The double explanation in the Timaeus / Seven K. Strange -- Plato on not-being / G.E.L. Owen -- - Being in the Sophist: a syntactical enquiry / Lesley Brown.
Note:v. 2: PLATO 2: ETHICS, POLITICS, RELIGION, AND THE SOUL: Socrates and democracy / Richard Kraut -- Socratic piety / Gregory Vlastos -- The unity of virtue / Terry Penner -- Happiness and virtue in Socrates' moral theory / Gregory Vlastos -- The individual as an object of love in Plato / Gregory Vlastos -- Republic 2: questions about justice / T.H. Irwin -- Plato's theory of human motivation / John M. Cooper -- Plato's defence of justice / Norman O. Dahl -- Return to the cave: Republic 519-521 / Richard Kraut -- The allegory of city and soul in Plato's Republic / Bernard Williams -- Plato's Republic and feminism / Julia Annas -- Plato's totalitarianism / C.W. Taylor -- Utopia and fantasy: the practicabiity of Plato's ideally just city / M.F. Burnyeat -- The ideal of godlikeness / David Sedley -- Plato's theory of human good in the Philebus / John M. Cooper -- Rumpelstiltskin's pleasures: true and false pleasures in Plato's Philebus / Dorothea Frede -- Persuasion, compulsion, and freedom in Plato's Laws / Christopher Bobonich -- The soul and immortality in Plato's Phaedo / David Bostock -- Immortality and the nature of the soul in the Phaedrus / Richard Bett.
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