Cambridge Companion to Plato

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato's philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

List of contents

1. Introduction to the study of Plato David Ebrey and Richard Kraut; 2. Plato in his context T. H. Irwin; 3. Stylometry and chronology Leonard Brandwood; 4. Plato's Socrates and his conception of philosophy Eric Brown; 5. Being good at being bad: Plato's Hippias Minor Agnes Callard; 6. Inquiry in the Meno Gail Fine; 7. Why eros? Suzanne Obdrzalek; 8. Plato on philosophy and the mysteries Gábor Betegh; 9. The unfolding account of the forms in the Phaedo David Ebrey; 10. The defense of justice in Plato's republic Richard Kraut; 11. Plato on poetic creativity: A revision Elizabeth Asmis; 12. Betwixt and between: Plato on mathematical objects Henry Mendell; 13. Another good-bye to the third man Constance C. Meinwald; 14. Plato's Sophist on false statements Michael Frede; 15. Cosmology and human nature in the Timaeus Emily Fletcher; 16. The fourfold classification and Socrates' craft analogy in the Philebus Verity Harte; 17. Law in Plato's late politics Rachana Kamtekar and Rachel Singpurwalla.

About the author

Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.

Summary

The chapters in this volume cover the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. The introduction provides general guidance to approaching Plato's corpus and the chapters introduce key ideas and scholarly debates.

Product details

• Authors: David (Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berlin) Krau Ebrey, David (Northwestern University Ebrey
• Assisted by: David Ebrey (Editor), Ebrey David (Editor), Richard Kraut (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781108471190
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47119-0
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge Companions to Philos
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500