The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Frontmatter 1 Introduction to the study of Plato 2 Plato: The intellectual background 3 Stylometry and chronology 4 Socrates and the early dialogues 5 Mathematical method and philosophical truth 6 Inquiry in the Meno 7 Plato and Greek Religion 8 Platonic love 9 Plato's metaphysical epistemology 10 The defense of justice in Plato's Republic 11 Plato on poetic creativity 12 Good-bye to the Third Man 13 Plato's Sophist on fals estatements 14 Disintegration and restoration: Pleasure and pain in Plato's Philebus 15 Plato's later political thought Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Passages Fourteen specially-commissioned essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion Fourteen specially commissioned essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion