The Cambridge Companion to Plato

David Ebrey , Richard Kraut

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Cambridge University Press
04 August 2022

Philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: logic; Philosophy: aesthetics; Ethics & moral philosophy

Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped scholarly research and guided new students for thirty years. This new edition introduces students to fresh approaches to Platonic dialogues while advancing the next generation of research. Of its seventeen chapters, nine are entirely new, written by a new generation of scholars. Six others have been thoroughly revised and updated by their original authors. The volume covers the full range of Plato's interests, including ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, religion, mathematics, and psychology. Plato's dialogues are approached as unified works and considered within their intellectual context, and the revised introduction suggests a way of reading the dialogues that attends to the differences between them while also tracing their interrelations. The result is a rich and wide-ranging volume which will be valuable for all students and scholars of Plato.

Edited by: David Ebrey , Richard Kraut
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9781108457262
ISBN 10: 1108457266
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Pages: 520
Publication Date: 04 August 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction to the study of Plato David Ebrey and Richard Kraut; 2. Plato in his context T. H. Irwin; 3. Stylometry and chronology Leonard Brandwood; 4. Plato's Socrates and his conception of philosophy Eric Brown; 5. Being good at being bad: Plato's Hippias Minor Agnes Callard; 6. Inquiry in the Meno Gail Fine; 7. Why eros? Suzanne Obdrzalek; 8. Plato on philosophy and the mysteries Gabor Betegh; 9. The unfolding account of the forms in the Phaedo David Ebrey; 10. The defense of justice in Plato's republic Richard Kraut; 11. Plato on poetic creativity: A revision Elizabeth Asmis; 12. Betwixt and between: Plato on mathematical objects Henry Mendell; 13. Another good-bye to the third man Constance C. Meinwald; 14. Plato's Sophist on false statements Michael Frede; 15. Cosmology and human nature in the Timaeus Emily Fletcher; 16. The fourfold classification and Socrates' craft analogy in the Philebus Verity Harte; 17. Law in Plato's late politics Rachana Kamtekar and Rachel Singpurwalla.

Devid Ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.