Table of Contents

Introduction
Plato in His Time and Place
The Platonic Corpus
Plato's Ways of Writing: Representation and Reflection
The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Socrates
Socratic Ethics and Moral Psychology
Plato's Epistemology
Plato's Metaphysics
Plato's Philosophy of Language
Plato on the Soul
Plato's Ethics
Plato on Love
Plato's Politics
Plato on Education and Art
The Republic
The Parmenides
The Theaetetus
The Sophist: How Plato Poses and Solves Two Problems about Statements
The Timaeus and the Principles of Cosmology
The Philebus
Plato and Aristotle in the Academy: An Aristotelian Criticism of Platonic Forms
Plato and Platonism
Bibliography

About the Author

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University and Senior research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She is the author of On Ideas and Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays, and the editor of Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology and of Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul, both in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series.

Reviews

"The volume's greatest strength is its evenness: with few exceptions, the articles are pitched at the same level as one another, rendering the pieces equally accessible to their audience. Another strength is its thoroughness: it appears to leave no real topical stone unturned in its efforts to acquaint the reader with Plato and Platonic scholarship." -- Philosophy in Review
"Evokes new ideas and challenges to readers of Plato."
--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"[T]he collection succeeds remarkably well in offering fresh perspectives on a number of themes in Plato's work while avoiding excessive scholarly wrangling or overly technical discussions of individual passages.... the collection accomplishes what should be its primary purpose -- turning readers toward Plato with a fresh set of interpretive perspectives and questions for further exploration." --Bryn Mawr Classical Review