Plato's Philebus: Selected Papers from the Eighth Symposium Platonicum

Table of Contents; Preface; De Vogel Lecture; Dorothea Frede. Life and its Limitations: the conception of happiness in the Philebus; 1. Themes; A. Logic and Dialectic; Hugh H. Benson. Collection and Division in the Philebus; Francisco Bravo. El mtodo de la divisin y la divisin de los placeres en el Filebo de Platn; Hallvard J. Fossheim. Method in the Philebus; Mary Louise Gill. The Divine Method in Plato's Philebus; Christopher Gill. Dialogue Form and Philosophical Content in Plato's Philebus; Charles H. Kahn. Dialectic, Cosmology, and Ontology in the Philebus. Michel Narcy. Socrate l'cole de l'tranger d'leNoburu Notomi. The questions asked in the Philebus; Richard Patterson. The Philebus and the Unity of Platonic Method; Naomi Reshotko. Restoring Coherence to the Gods' Gift to Men: Philebus 16c9-18b7 and 23e3-27b8; Serafina Rotondaro. Il Filebo di Platone, ovvero l'abile difesa di una supremazia; David T. Runia. Didactic enumeration in the Philebus and other Platonic writings; Harold Tarra. This book comprises a selection of the articles delivered at the Eighth Symposium Platonicum of the International Plato Society, held in Dublin in July 2007. The articles cover all the chief topics raised in the Philebus, including dialectic, the nature of pleasure, the system of fi rst principles, and the nature of the good life. The papers represent a fi ne panorama of current scholarly thinking on the contents of this most interesting and significant dialogue