The Platonic Mind

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Reading Plato’s Dialogues
	1 Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides
	2 Plato’s Protagoras, Virtue, and Happiness
	3 The Meno
	4 The Gorgias
	5 The Hippias Major
	6 Is the Just Man a Bad Man? Hippias Minor and Republic I. 331d–334b
	7 The Phaedo: Structure and Meaning
	8 The Cratylus
	9 Reading Plato’s Republic: Defending Justice
	10 The Phaedrus
	11 The Euthydemus
	12 Dialectic and the Discrimination of Kinds in the Sophist
	13 The Parmenides
	14 The Timaeus
	15 Plato’s Seventh Letter
Part 2 Themes From Plato
	16 The Platonic Socrates
	17 Plato’s Questions and the Art of Questioning
	18 Plato on Essences and Forms
	19 Sense Perception and Its Content
	20 Plato on Language and Thought
	21 Truth, Music, and the “Measured” Mind
	22 Plato on Pleasure and Pain
	23 Episteme
	24 Plato on Friendship and Love
	25 The Benefits of Inquiring Jointly
	26 Law and Its Functions
	27 Humor, Comedy, and Irony in Plato
Part 3 Plato’s Influences and Significance
	28 Plato’s Use of His Predecessors
	29 Plato and Aristotle on the Nature of Reality
	30 The Development and Insights of Jewish Platonism
	31 Plato in the Renaissance
	32 Why Plato? A Defense of Platonism Against the Deflationary Metaphysics of Naturalism
Index