Platonic Studies: Second Edition

Platonic Studies: Second Edition

by Gregory Vlastos
Platonic Studies: Second Edition

Platonic Studies: Second Edition

by Gregory Vlastos

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Overview

This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the essays have appeared in various philosophical and classical journals or symposia, new in the volume are two major studies. One is on Plato's theory of love, exploring its metaphysical dimension and its far-reaching implications for personal and political relations. The other centers on semantic and logical problems in the Sophist; it offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. In these essays the author presents ideas which are likely to provoke comment and may be discussed as vigorously in scholarly journals as has some of his earlier work. The other papers, some of them extensively revised, comprise virtually all the author's published work on Plato, with the exception of a few papers easily accessible elsewhere. This second edition includes three additional essays and extensive notes that were not included in the original edition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691226958
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03/09/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 504
File size: 9 MB

Table of Contents

Preface to Second Printingxi
Acknowledgmentsxv
Abbreviationsxvii
Part IMorals, Politics, Metaphysics
1.The Individual as Object of Love in Plato (IOLP)3
Appendix IIs the Lysis a Vehicle of Platonic Doctrine?35
Appendix IISex in Platonic Love38
2.A Metaphysical Paradox (MP)43
3.Degrees of Reality in Plato (DR)58
4.Reasons and Causes in the Phaedo (RC)76
5.Justice and Happiness in the Republic (JHR)111
6.Does Slavery Exist in Plato's Republic? (SER)140
7.Slavery in Plato's Thought (SPT)147
8.[characters not reproducible] (IP)164
9.Socratic Knowledge and Platonic "Pessimism" (SKPP)204
Part IILogic, Epistemology, Metaphysics
10.The Unity of the Virtues in the Protagoras (UVP)221
AppendixThe Argument in La. 197Eff.266
11.An Ambiguity in the Sophist (AS)270
Appendix IOn the Interpretation of Sph. 248D4-E4309
Appendix IIMore on Pauline Predications in Plato318
12.The "Two-Level Paradoxes" in Aristotle (TLPA)323
13.Self-Predication and Self-Participation in Plato's Later Period (SPPL)335
14.Plato's "Third Man" Argument (Parm. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic (TMA II)342
Appendix IRecent Papers on the TMA361
Appendix IIThe First Regress Argument in Parm. 132A-B2363
15.Plato's Supposed Theory of Irregular Atomic Figures (IAF)366
16.Plato on Knowledge and Reality (PKR)374
17.On Plato's Oral Doctrine (POD)379
AppendixDoes Ti. 53C8-D7 give support to the Esotericist Thesis?399
18.A Note on "Pauline Predications" in Plato (NPP)404
19.What Did Socrates Understand by His "What is F?" Question? (SQ)410
20.Socrates on "The Parts of Virtue" (SPV)418
Starred Notes to Various Essays424
Bibliography446
Index of Greek Words455
Index of Names459
Index of Passages464
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