Plato

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Summary Plato (ca. 427-347 B.C.E.) was an Athenian philosopher who is widely recognized among the most important philosophers of the Western world.  Plato can be plausibly credited with the invention of philosophy as we understand it today – the rational, rigorous, and systematic study of fundamental questions concerning ethics, politics, psychology, theology, epistemology, and metaphysics.  He wrote primarily in dialogue form.  Among his most influential views are a commitment to the distinction between changeless, eternal forms and changeable, observable ordinary objects, the immortality of the soul, the distinction between knowledge and true belief and the view that knowledge is in some way recollection, that philosophers should be rulers and rulers philosophers, and that justice is in some way welcomed for its own sake.  He was a follower of Socrates, significantly influenced Aristotle, the Stoics, the Academic skeptics, Plotinus, among others, and founded the Academy, perhaps the first institution of higher learning in the west.
Key works Among the most well-known of Plato’s works (26 generally acknowledged dialogues and 13 more doubtful letters) are the Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, Phaedo, Republic, Symposium, Theaetetus, and Timaeus.  The standard English translations of the complete works can be found in Cooper 1997.
Introductions A good place to start studying Plato in general is the entry in Stanford Encyclopedia, Kraut 2008, Hare 1982, and Annas 2003.  Important collections of essays include Vlastos 1973, Kraut 1992, Fine 1999, Fine 1999, Fine 2008, and Benson 2006.
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  1. Théorie platonīcienne de l'amour.Léon Robin - 1933 - Paris,: F. Alcan.
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  2. Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, by Melissa Lane.Christopher Rowe - forthcoming - Mind.
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  3. Writing the Theoria: Genre occidental, Jean-Luc Nancy and Pascal Quignard, a Footnote to Plato’s Seventh Letter, 344c.Nenad Ivić - 2024 - In Davor Beganović, Zrinka Božić, Andrea Milanko & Ivana Perica (eds.), Procedures of Resistance: Contents, Positions and the ‘Doings’ of Literary Theory. Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 333-341.
    The paper describes and contextualizes the scene of thinking in Jean-Luc Nancy's Le poids d’une pensée, l’approche (2008) and Pascal Quignard’s Mourir de penser (2014) in the perspective of the so-called “genre occidental” (term coined by Nancy in Demande, 2015), characterized by the hybridization of literature and philosophy, the overlapping of concept and writing and the mutual conditioning of philosophical achievement (system, architectonics, certitude) and literary pursuit (recitative, recitation, recital). This written philosophy is characteristic of the works of Nancy, Milner, (...)
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  4. Plotinus on Plato’s Timaeus 90 a.Irini-Fotini Viltanioti - forthcoming - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition:1-37.
    The central place of Plato’s Timaeus in Plotinus’ Enneads has long been acknowledged. However, the importance of Timaeus 90 a for Plotinus’ psychology and theory of Intellect has not until now been properly recognized. This paper argues that, in Plato’s Timaeus 90 a, Plotinus sees his own distinction between the Hypostasis Intellect and human intellect, that is, our higher soul, which Plato in the Timaeus calls a daimon and which Plotinus takes to remain in the intelligible realm, interpreting it along (...)
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  5. Plato's Charmides by Raphael Woolf (review).Alan Pichanick - 2024 - Review of Metaphysics 77 (3):559-560.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Plato's Charmides by Raphael WoolfAlan PichanickWOOLF, Raphael. Plato's Charmides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 282 pp. Cloth, $110.00With the publication of Raphael Woolf's Plato's Charmides, Cambridge University Press releases its second commentary on the dialogue in the last two years. Woolf's contribution is a welcome addition. More than a discussion of the difficulties of defining sophrosune, his approach to the Charmides is distinctive in his attempt to unify (...)
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  6. Leo Strauss on Plato's Euthyphro ed. Hannes Kerber, and Svetozar Y. Minkov (review).Colin David Pears - 2024 - Review of Metaphysics 77 (3):550-552.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Leo Strauss on Plato's Euthyphro ed. Hannes Kerber, and Svetozar Y. MinkovColin David PearsKERBER, Hannes, and Svetozar Y. Minkov, editors. Leo Strauss on Plato's Euthyphro. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. vii + 231 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95Leo Strauss is an enigmatic figure in the landscape of political philosophy, deeply committed to the restoration of political philosophy as the premiere discipline in academia. He spent his (...)
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  7. The Guardians and the Law in Plato’s Republic.Julia Annas - 2024 - In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. Springer Verlag. pp. 99-113.
    I begin with some points from the Republic which are familiar, perhaps over-familiar, to everyone, and then raise an issue about the role of law in Kallipolis which points us to something not so familiar. I hope that this contribution to honoring Fred Miller will lead to the kind of discussion that his own work has stimulated over the years, across an incredibly wide range of topics. I am honored and delighted to contribute to honoring Fred, and hope that this (...)
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  8. Appetites, Akrasia, and the Appetitive Part of the Soul in Plato’s Republic.C. D. C. Reeve - 2024 - In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. Springer Verlag. pp. 115-133.
    In his much-explored argument for the tripartition of the soul in book IV of the Republic, Socrates makes use of two principles, which I shall call the principle of opposition and the principle of qualification. The aim of the present paper is to explain, in particular, the second of these principles, so as to reveal its role in that argument and in the conception of an appetite and of the appetitive part that is central to the larger argument of the (...)
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  9. ‘Childish Frivolity’: Plato’s Socrates on the Interpretation of Poetry.Nicholas D. Smith - 2024 - In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. Springer Verlag. pp. 61-73.
    Scholars have wrestled with the very troubling but also rather long passage in the Protagoras in which Socrates offers an interpretation of a poem by Simonides (339e-347a). On the one hand, the way in which Socrates develops his interpretation leads to an outcome that makes it look as if Socrates attributes distinctly Socratic views to the poet, which had led a number of scholars to conclude that, albeit in a rather strange way, Socrates is trying to do something philosophically serious (...)
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  10. Reason and the Good in Plato’s Republic.Allan Silverman - 2024 - In David Keyt & Christopher Shields (eds.), Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Fred D. Miller, Jr. Springer Verlag. pp. 135-158.
    Let me begin with some of the background worries that motivate the paper. First, for years I have been working on the relation of the Timaeus to the Republic guided by this triple analogy: as the demiurge is to the cosmos, so the philosopher-ruler is to the polis, so reason is to the soul or individual. The key claim is Tim. 29e: the demiurge is good and so wants to make everything it makes like it itself is, i.e., good, as (...)
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  11. PLATO'S LIFE AND WORKS - (R.) Waterfield Plato of Athens. A Life in Philosophy. Pp. xl + 255, ills, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Cased, £21.99, US$27.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-756475-2. [REVIEW]Emily Hulme - 2024 - The Classical Review 74 (1):75-77.
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  12. The Problem of the Correlation between Pity and Injustice in Plato and Aristotle. 손병석 - 2024 - Cheolhak-Korean Journal of Philosophy 158:47-70.
    이 글은 플라톤과 아리스토텔레스의 연민(eleos)과 부정의(adikia)의 상관관계에 대한 견해를 비교하여 고찰한다. 특히 부정의한 행위의 비자발성 논제에 관한 두 철학자의 상반된 견해를 검토한다. 먼저 부정의한 자의 행위를 비자발적인 것으로 보면서 그에 대한 연민을 주장하는 플라톤의 견해를 검토한다. 그래서 부정의 한 행위가 비자발적인 것으로 간주되는 근본적인 원인이 무교육(amathia)에 의한 무지(agnoia)에 있음을 밝힌다. 다음으로 아리스토텔레스의 부정의한 자의 행위에 대한 연민을 부정하는 이유를 살펴본다. 특히 부정의한 자의 품성의 비자발성의 근거로 제시되는 플라톤의 무교육 주장에 대해 아리스토텔레스적인 답변이 어떻게 가능한지를 어린아이의 초기교육과 성인의 교육단계에 초점을 맞추어 (...)
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  13. The Way We Divide Forms ’in Our Soul’: Conceived Parthood at Plato’s Sophist 250b8.Sabrier Pauline - 2024 - Méthexis 36:54–72.
    What does Plato mean when he declares at Soph. 250b8 that Theaetetus is positing Being in his soul (ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τιθείς) as a third something encompassing Change and Rest? Is he merely clarifying that the act of positing is a mental act? Or is he making a further point? This paper argues that the locution ‘in the soul’ plays a significant role in the passage in alerting to a contrast between the way Being and its relation to Change and (...)
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  14. Die Lehre vom noetischen und dianoetischen Denken bei Platon und Aristoteles.Klaus Oehler - 1962 - München,: Beck.
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  15. Symposium on Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.John Dunn - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political1 is the product of an international community of scholarship centuries in the making which has harnessed the intellectual energies...
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  16. Reappraising Plato’s Cratylus.David Meißner - 2024 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 106 (1):1-22.
    While the argument of Plato’s Cratylus supports both the claim that there is a natural correctness of names and the claim that correct names need not be descriptions or imitations of their referents, the protagonists of the Cratylus find it infeasible to reconcile these two claims. In my paper, I account for this puzzling observation by elaborating a novel interpretation of the Cratylus. I show that the protagonists of the Cratylus are unable to make sense of the results of their (...)
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  17. ARISTOTLE ON PLATO - (A.) Ferro Aristotle on Self-Motion. The Criticism of Plato in De Anima_ and _Physics VIII. (Philosophical Studies in Ancient Thought 1.) Pp. 463. Basel: Schwabe, 2022. Cased, CHF78. ISBN: 978-3-7965-4163-6. [REVIEW]Pierre-Marie Morel - forthcoming - The Classical Review:1-2.
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  18. Doing History Philosophically and Philosophy Historically.Marcel van Ackeren & Matthieu Queloz - forthcoming - In Marcel van Ackeren & Matthieu Queloz (eds.), Bernard Williams on Philosophy and History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Bernard Williams argued that historical and philosophical inquiry were importantly linked in a number of ways. This introductory chapter distinguishes four different connections he identified between philosophy and history. (1) He believed that philosophy could not ignore its own history in the way that science can. (2) He thought that when engaging with philosophy’s history primarily to produce history, one still had to draw on philosophy. (3) Even doing history of philosophy philosophically, i.e. primarily to produce philosophy, required a keen (...)
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  19. A Footnote on Alain Badiou´s Critique of Plato´s Sophist.Keylor Murillo - 2022 - Síntesis Revista de Filosofía 5 (2):98-115.
    In his second book on being and event, Logics of Worlds, Alain Badiou describes Plato’s late dialogue, The Sophist as “one of the first transcendental inquiries in the history of thought”. In this dialogue, Plato introduces what he calls the Idea of the Other, the possibility of a being of non-being, an inevitable break with the Parmenidean tradition. However, according to Badiou, Plato fails to provide an example of how this Idea of the Other can manifest itself or be effective (...)
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  20. Exiting From and Returning to the Cave: Plato's Specific Methodology of Enlightenment.Asher Zachman - manuscript
    This enquiry attempts to establish Walter Pahnke's categorization of the mystical experience as the specific phenomenological process Socrates refers to as dialectic in the Republic's allegory of the cave. Aside from a comparative analysis of the numerous connections between Plato's most prolific allegory and Pahnke's mystical experience, I define the symbol bearers as oppressive religious authority and tie the symbols of the cave to the post-industrial drug-war and for-profit organization of spirituality observable throughout a world so far removed from the (...)
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  21. What is constitutional in Platonic ‘constitutional rule’? On Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political.Matthew Landauer - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    Of Rule and Office offers an account of Plato as a pre-eminent theorist of ‘constitutional rule’. In this comment I’ll pose some questions about the relationship between ‘constitution’ and ‘rule’ (...
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  22. Melissa Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Idea of the Political as contribution to legal philosophy.Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    I would like to locate the thought-provoking ideas advanced by Lane’s Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Idea of the Political within the context of contemporary intellectual legal philosophy and constitu...
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  23. Nietzsche’s Wrestling with Plato and Platonism.Thomas Brobjer - 2004 - In Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition. Camden House. pp. 241-259.
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  24. Nietzsche and Plato.Laurence Lampert - 2004 - In Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition. Camden House. pp. 204-219.
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  25. Plato on Suicide (Phaedo 60C-63C).Murray Miles - 2001 - Phoenix 55 (3/4):244-258.
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  26. Daniel A. Dombrowski, "Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy: Rawls and Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas.". [REVIEW]Travis Hreno - 2024 - Philosophy in Review 44 (1):9-13.
    A book review of Daniel A. Dombrowski's, "Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy: Rawls and Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas.".
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  27. Platons Ideenlehre.Gottfried Martin - 1973 - New York,: de Gruyter.
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  28. Time of Change in Plato and Aristotle.Ondřej Krása - 2024 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 26 (2):232-252.
    When do things change? When do things have some characteristics? I try to answer these questions by looking at different solutions Plato and Aristotle presented in their works. The famous analysis of change from the second half of Plato’s Parmenides claims that change happens outside of time, at an “instant”. On the contrary, Aristotle in the Physics explicitly argues that all change occurs only in time. However, both Plato and Aristotle also provide other analyses of change. How to deal with (...)
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  29. Diagloghi: Eutifrone, Apologia di Socrate, Critone, Fedone, Assioco, Jone, Menone, Alcibiade, Convito, Parmenide, Timeo, Fedro. Plato - 1976 - Torino: Einaudi. Edited by Francesco Acri & Carlo Carena.
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  30. Plato.Karl Jaspers - 1976 - München: Piper.
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  31. Sobre las ciudades ideales de Platón: discurso.Luis Cervera Vera - 1976 - Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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  32. The Epistemology of Rhetoric : Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth.Erik Bengtson - unknown
    In The Epistemology of Rhetoric: Plato, Doxa, and Post-Truth, Erik Bengtson sets out to formulate a contemporary epistemology of rhetoric considering the prevailing post-truth condition. In pursuit of this objective, Bengtson challenges dominant myths surrounding Plato's influence on rhetoric and examines the contemporary scholarly discourse on doxa, shedding light on its various facets. He also introduces the concepts of sedimentation and erosion as tools for comprehending the protracted nature of argumentation on foundational issues. This work not only advances our comprehension (...)
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  33. Mocht Plato zien wat er van de universiteit geworden is, dan zou hij stomverbaasd en bezorgd zijn.Michael S. Merry & Bart Van Leeuwen - 2024 - Https://Www.Knack.Be/Nieuws/Belgie/Onderwijs/Mocht-Plato-Zien-Wat-Er-van-de-Universiteit-Geworden-is -Dan-Zou-Hij-Stomverbaasd-En-Bezorgd-Zijn/.
    Als Plato de hedendaagse academie zou aanschouwen, zou hij niet alleen stomverbaasd zijn over de massificatie en de byzantijnse bureaucratie, maar gezien het ethische doel van de universiteit zou hij ook reden hebben om bezorgd te zijn.
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  34. Force and Persuasion: The Musical Two-Tiered Structure of Plato’s Cosmology.Noam Cohen - forthcoming - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy.
    Most scholars have not assigned much interpretive importance to the specific use of the term ‘persuasion’ in the cosmology of Plato’s Timaeus. This paper suggests understanding cosmological ‘persuasion’ in conjunction with ‘force,’ another trait of divine agency in the Timaeus. It analyses the nature of intelligent causation in the cosmology of the Timaeus, particularly in the construction of the cosmic body and soul. Then, it gives a detailed characterization of the causation of necessity, appearing in the Timaeus in three different (...)
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  35. Der Platonismus in der Antike: Grundlagen, System, Entwicklung.Heinrich Dörrie - 1987 - Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog. Edited by Matthias Baltes & Friedhelm Mann.
    Bd. 1. Die geschichtlichen Wurzeln des Platonismus (Bausteine 1-35) -- Bd. 2. Der hellenistische Rahmen des kaiserzeitlichen Platonismus (Bausteine 36-72) -- Bd. 3. Der Platonismus im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert nach Christus (Bausteine 73-100) -- Bd. 4. Die philosophische Lehre des Platonismus (Bausteine 101-124) -- Bd. 5. Die philosophische Lehre des Platonismus (Bausteine 125-150) -- Bd. 6. Die philosophische Lehre des Platonismus (2 v.; Bausteine 151-181) -- Index zu den Bänden 1-4.
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  36. Plato’s Parmenides: Selected Papers from the Twelfth Symposium Platonicum.Luc Brisson, Macé Arnaud & Olivier Renaut (eds.) - 2022 - Academia Verlag.
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  37. Two Portraits of Protagoras in Plato: Theaetetus vs. Protagoras.Mateo Duque - 2023 - Illinois Classical Studies 47 (2):359-382.
    This article will contrast two portrayals of Protagoras: one in the "Theaetetus," where Socrates discusses Protagorean theory and even comes to his defense by imitating the deceased sophist; and another in the "Protagoras," where Socrates recounts his encounter with the sophist. I suggest that Plato wants listeners and readers of the dialogues to hear the dissonance between the two portraits and to wonder why Socrates so distorts Protagoras in the "Theaetetus." Protagoras in the "Protagoras" behaves and speaks in ways that (...)
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  38. Performing Philosophy: The Pedagogy of Plato’s Academy Reimagined.Mateo Duque - 2023 - In Heather L. Reid, Mark Ralkowski & Henry C. Curcio (eds.), Paideia and Performance: Selected Essays from the 7th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy. Siracusa: Parnassos Press. pp. 87-106.
    In this paper, drawing on evidence internal to the Platonic dialogues (supplemented with some ancient testimonia), I answer the question, “How did Plato teach in the Academy?” My reconstruction of Plato’s pedagogy in the Academy is that there was a single person who read the dialogue aloud like a rhapsode (this is in contrast to the dramatic theatrical hypothesis, in which several speakers function as actors in the performance of a dialogue). After the rhapsodic reading, students were allowed to ask (...)
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  39. Entry on "Metatheatre" in Section 4 "Concepts, Themes and Topics Treated in the Dialogues" in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition).Mateo Duque - 2022 - In Gerald Press & Mateo Duque (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 287-289.
    This is a short entry on "Metatheatre" in Section 4, "Concepts, Themes and Topics Treated in the Dialogues," in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato, edited by Gerald Press and Mateo Duque.
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  40. Entry on "Comedy" in Section 3 "Important Features of the Dialogues" in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition).Mateo Duque - 2022 - In Gerald Press & Mateo Duque (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 140-143.
    This is a short entry on "Comedy" in Section 3, "Important Features of the Dialogues," in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato, edited by Gerald Press and Mateo Duque.
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  41. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato (2nd edition).Gerald Press & Mateo Duque (eds.) - 2022 - London: Bloomsbury.
    This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy. It is organized into five parts illuminating Plato’s life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues’ literary features, the concepts and themes explored within them and Plato’s reception via his influence on subsequent philosophers and the various interpretations of his (...)
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  42. Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy. By Vilius Bartninkas.Lewis Meek Trelawny-Cassity - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):258-266.
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  43. Plato’s Phaedo: Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life. By David Ebrey.Doug Al-Maini - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):251-255.
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  44. Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy. By Robin Waterfield.William Prior - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):247-251.
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  45. Justice and Piety in Plato’s Euthyphro.Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidin - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):17-32.
    In Plato’s Euthyphro, Socrates raises the question whether piety is coextensive with justice, or a part of it (11e4-12a2; cf. 12c10-d3). Euthyphro chooses the latter option, and seeks to determine the part of justice that piety happens to be. Scholars have debated fiercely about whether Socrates shares this view (Calef 1995a; McPherran 1995; Calef 1995b). This paper argues that, if Euthyphro is to remain consistent throughout the dialogue, coextensiveness must be favored over the part-of-justice view. If this is so, then (...)
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  46. Nocturnal Vision in Plato’s Timaeus.Sean M. Costello - 2024 - Ancient Philosophy 44 (1):59-81.
    This article examines whether vision in Plato’s Timaeus can realize its primary function of permitting humans to stabilize their misaligned orbits of intelligence by getting to know the universe’s orbits as revealed through the heavenly bodies’ movements. I consider a concern that Timaeus, while seemingly requiring nocturnal vision for this purpose, appears to preclude its possibility, thereby threatening the dialogue’s internal coherence. I then argue that Timaeus has the resources to overcome this worry and to provide a philosophically cogent account (...)
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  47. τὸ ἐξαίφνης and Time in Plato's Parmenides.Asadullah Khan - 2023 - Dialogue 62 (3):553-567.
    RésuméJe soutiens, à travers Heidegger, que la notion de τὸ ἐξαίφνης dans le Parménide ne signifie pas l’éternité, ou une trace d’éternité dans le temps, mais implique plutôt une conception primordiale du temps. Dans la déduction numéro deux, la relation entre la stasis et la kinesis devient problématique à cause de la notion de τὸ νῦν. Cela conduit Parménide, dans la déduction numéro trois, à poser la notion de τὸ ἐξαίφνης pour résoudre cette relation problématique, ce qui implique une conception (...)
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  48. Lezioni sul "Cratilo" di Platone. Proclus - 1989 - Roma: Distribuzione esclusiva, L'Erma di Bretschneider. Edited by Francesco Romano.
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  49. “Educating Children for Wisdom”: Reflecting on the Philosophy for Children Community of Inquiry Approach Through Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.Cathlyne Abarejo - 2024 - Childhood and Philosophy 20:01-28.
    There is a widespread belief in Philosophy for Children that Plato, the famed Greek thinker who introduced philosophizing to the world as a form of dialogue, was averse to teaching philosophy to young children. Decades of the implementation of P4C program’s inquiry pedagogy have shown conclusively that children are not, in fact, incapable of receiving philosophical training and education. But was Plato wrong? Or has he been largely misunderstood? Does his theory of education show the value of cultivating virtues in (...)
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  50. Marina Marren’s Plato and Aristophanes.Deborah Achtenberg - 2023 - Peitho 14 (1):141-144.
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