The Continuum Companion to Plato

Cover\nHalf title\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\nOther Ancient Authors\nOther Abbreviations\nList of Contributors\nINTRODUCTION\n1. PLATO’S LIFE – HISTORICAL AND INTELLECTUAL\n	Plato’s life\n	Aristophanes and intellectuals\n	Education ( paideia)\n	Eleatics\n	Isocrates and logography\n	Orality and literacy\n	Poetry (epic and lyric)\n	Pre-Socratic philosophers\n	Pythagoreans\n	Rhetoric and speechmaking\n	Socrates (historical)\n	Socratics (other than Plato)\n	The sophists\n2. THE DIALOGUES\n	The platonic corpus and manuscript tradition\n	Alcibiades I\n	The Apology of Socrates\n	Charmides\n	Clitophon\n	Cratylus\n	Crito\n	Dubia and Spuria\n	Euthydemus\n	Euthyphro\n	Gorgias\n	Hippias Major\n	Hippias Minor\n	Ion\n	Laches\n	Laws\n	Letters\n	Lysis\n	Menexenus\n	Meno\n	Parmenides\n	Phaedo\n	Phaedrus\n	Philebus\n	Politicus (Statesman)\n	Protagoras\n	Republic\n	Sophist\n	Symposium\n	Theaetetus\n	Theages\n	Timaeus and Critias\n3. IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE DIALOGUES\n	Anonymity\n	Argument\n	Character (feature)\n	Drama\n	History\n	Humour\n	Irony\n	Language\n	Literary composition\n	Musical structure of the Dialogues\n	Myth\n	Pedagogical structure of the Dialogues\n	Pedimental structure of the Dialogues\n	Play\n	Proleptic composition\n	Socrates (The character)\n4. TOPICS AND THEMES TREATED IN THE DIALOGUES\n	Account\n	Aesthetics\n	Akrasia (incontinence, weakness of will)\n	Antilogy and eristics (eristic)\n	Appearance and reality (reality)\n	Appetite\n	Argument\n	Art (technê)\n	Beauty (kalon)\n	Being and becoming (on , onta ; gignesthai)\n	Cause (aitia)\n	Cave, the allegory of the\n	Character (topic)\n	City (polis)\n	Convention\n	Cosmos (kosmos)\n	Cross examination\n	Daimôn\n	Death\n	Desire (appetite, epithumia)\n	Dialectic (dialektikê)\n	Divided line\n	Education\n	Elenchus (cross examination, refutation)\n	Epistemology (knowledge)\n	Eristic\n	Erôs\n	Ethics\n	Eudaimonia\n	Excellence (virtue , aretê)\n	Forms (eidos, idea)\n	Friendship (philia)\n	Goodness (the Good, agathon)\n	Happiness (eudaimonia)\n	Idea\n	Image (eikôn)\n	Imitation\n	Incontinence\n	Inspiration\n	Intellectualism\n	Justice (dikaion, dikaiosynê)\n	Knowledge\n	Language\n	Law (convention, nomos)\n	Logic\n	Logos (account, argument, defi nition, statement)\n	Love (erôs)\n	Madness and possession\n	Mathematics (mathêmatikê)\n	Medicine (iatrikê)\n	Metaphysics\n	Method\n	Mimêsis (imitation)\n	Music\n	Myth (muthos)\n	Nature (phusis)\n	Nomos\n	Non-propositional knowledge\n	The One (to hen)\n	Ontology (metaphysics)\n	Paiderastia (pederasty)\n	Participation\n	Perception and sensation ( aisthêsis, aisthanomai ) (sensation)\n	Philosophy and the philosopher\n	Phusis\n	Piety (eusebeia, hosios)\n	Pleasure (hêdonê)\n	Poetry (poiêsis)\n	Polis\n	Politics and the fi gure of the Politicus\n	Reality\n	Reason\n	Recollection (anamnêsis)\n	Refutation\n	Rhetoric (rhetorikê)\n	Self-knowledge\n	Sensation\n	Sophists\n	Soul (psychê)\n	The sun simile\n	Theology\n	Virtue\n	Vision\n	Weakness of will\n	Women\n	Writing (topic)\n5. LATER RECEPTION, INTERPRETATION AND INFLUENCE OF PLATO AND THE DIALOGUES\n	Section A: The Interpretation and Influence of Plato in the Ancient World\n		Ancient hermeneutics\n		Aristotle\n		Academy of Athens, ancient history of\n		Jewish Platonism (ancient)\n		Neoplatonism and its diaspora\n	Section B: The Influence of Plato in the Middle Ages and Renaissance\n		Medieval Islamic Platonism\n		Medieval Jewish Platonism\n		Medieval Christian Platonism\n		Renaissance Platonism\n		The Cambridge Platonists\n	Section C: The Influence and Interpretation of Plato in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy\n		Early modern philosophy: from Descartes to Berkeley\n		Nineteenth-century Plato scholarship\n		Nineteenth-century Platonic scholarship\n		Developmentalism\n		Compositional chronology\n		Analytic approaches to Plato\n		Vlastosian approaches\n		Continental approaches\n		Straussian readings of Plato\n		Plato’s ‘unwritten doctrines’\n		Esotericism\n		The Tübingen approach\n		Anti-Platonism, from ancient to modern\nBibliography\nIndex