Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing »

CHRISTOPHER ROWE is Professor of Greek in the Department of Classics & Ancient History at Durham University.

Major reassessment by a senior scholar of the whole of Plato's work and philosophical approach.

Preface     vii
Preliminaries: reading Plato     1
Introduction: The simile of the cave in the Republic     55
The Apology: Socrates' defence, Plato's manifesto     66
The Phaedo: Socrates' defence continued     96
'Examining myself and others', I: knowledge and soul in Charmides, First Alcibiades, Meno, Republic, Euthyphro, Phaedrus     122
The moral psychology of the Gorgias     143
'Examining myself and others', II: soul, the excellences and the 'longer road' in the Republic     164
Appendix to Chapter 5: Socrates vs Thrasymachus in Republic I     186
Interlude: A schedule of the genuine dialogues     198
Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, I: knowledge and belief in Book V     200
Knowledge and the philosopher-rulers of the Republic, II: the limits of knowledge     214
The Theaetetus, and the preferred Socratic-Platonic account of knowledge     229
The form of the good and the good: the Republic in conversation with other ('pre-Republic') dialogues     239
Republic and Timaeus: the status of Timaeus' account of the physical universe     255
Plato on the art of writing and speaking (logoi): the Phaedrus     266
Epilogue: What is Platonism?     273
Bibliography     277
Index     282