Plato : dramatist of the life of reason.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Randall, John Herman, Jr., 1899-1980
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, Columbia University Press, 1970.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Dialogues as dramatic vision
  • Plato the man
  • The Platonic corpus
  • The Greek heritage of Plato
  • Plato's heritage from the early Greek philosophers
  • Plato's immediate background : the Sophists
  • The historical and the Platonic Socrates
  • Plato's circle and audience
  • Plato the artist-philosopher
  • The philosophy of the artist and the artistic experience
  • The theme of the good life
  • The efficiently organized city : the Republic
  • The good life : "later" treatment
  • Plato's "ideas"
  • Platonic idealism
  • Platonic immortality
  • Plato's "later" philosophy
  • Plato's mathematical cosmology : his "unwritten philosophy"
  • Plato's ethical cosmology : the Timaeus
  • Epilogue : Plato and the tradition of "Platonism."