《柏拉图》一书,邀集十余位欧美学界研究柏拉图的权威专家,以15篇全新专文综述近年来的研究成果,分别讨论柏拉图关于知识、真实、数学、政治、伦理、爱、诗、宗教等方面的观点,对其思想和哲学发展进行社会和知识背景分析,同时以写作风格和编年等问题为焦点,分析其不同时期的对话。书后附有三十余页参考文献目录,以及非常有用的名词和主题索引。
List of contributors
Chronology
Abbreviations
1 Introduction to the study of Plato
RICHARD KRAUT
2 Plato: The intellectual background
T. H. IRWIN
3 Stylometry and chronology
LEONARD BRANDWOOD
4 Socrates and the early dialogues
TERRY PENNER
5 Mathematical method and philosophical truth
IAN MUELLER
6 Inquiry in the Meno
GAIL FINE
7 Plato and Greek religion
MICHAEL L. MORGAN
8 Platonic love
G. R. F. FERRARI
9 Plato's metaphysical epistemology
NICHOLAS P. WHITE
10 The defense of justice in Plato's Republic
RICHARD KRAUT
11 Plato on poetic creativity
ELIZABETH ASMIS
12 Good-bye to the Third Man
CONSTANCE C. MEINWALD
13 Plato's Sophist on false statements
MICHAEL FREDE
14 Disintegration and restoration: Pleasure and pain
in Plato's Philebus
DOROTHEA FREDE
15 Plato's later political thought
TREVOR 1. SAUNDERS
Bibliography
Index of names and subjects
Index of passages