Platonic studies / Gregory Vlastos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vlastos, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Physical Description:

xx, 478 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second print., with corrections.

Place of Publication:

[Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [1981]

Summary:

This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. Although many of the essays have appeared in various philosophical and classical journals or symposia, new in the volume are two major studies. One is on Plato's theory of love, exploring its metaphysical dimension and its far-reaching implications for personal and political relations. The other centers on semantic and logical problems in the Sophist; it offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. In these essays the author presents ideas which are likely to provoke comment and may be discussed as vigorously in scholarly journals as has some of his earlier work. The other papers, some of them extensively revised, comprise virtually all the author's published work on Plato, with the exception of a few papers easily accessible elsewhere.

Contents:

Part I Morals, Politics, Metaphysics

1. The Individual as Object of Love in Plato (IOLP) 3

Appendix I Is the Lysis a Vehicle of Platonic Doctrine? 35

Appendix II Sex in Platonic Love 38

2. A Metaphysical Paradox (MP) 43

3. Degrees of Reality in Plato (DR) 58

4. Reasons and Causes in the Phaedo (RC) 76

5. Justice and Happiness in the Republic (JHR) 111

6. Does Slavery Exist in Plato's Republic? (SER) 140

7. Slavery in Plato's Thought (SPT) 147

8. [characters not reproducible] (IP) 164

9. Socratic Knowledge and Platonic "Pessimism" (SKPP) 204

Part II Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics

10. The Unity of the Virtues in the Protagoras (UVP) 221

Appendix The Argument in La. 197Eff. 266

11. An Ambiguity in the Sophist (AS) 270

Appendix I On the Interpretation of Sph. 248D4-E4 309

Appendix II More on Pauline Predications in Plato 318

12. The "Two-Level Paradoxes" in Aristotle (TLPA) 323

13. Self-Predication and Self-Participation in Plato's Later Period (SPPL) 335

14. Plato's "Third Man" Argument (Parm. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic (TMA II) 342

Appendix I Recent Papers on the TMA 361

Appendix II The First Regress Argument in Parm. 132A-B2 363

15. Plato's Supposed Theory of Irregular Atomic Figures (IAF) 366

16. Plato on Knowledge and Reality (PKR) 374

17. On Plato's Oral Doctrine (POD) 379

Appendix Does Ti. 53C8-D7 give support to the Esotericist Thesis? 399

18. A Note on "Pauline Predications" in Plato (NPP) 404

19. What Did Socrates Understand by His "What is F?" Question? (SQ) 410

20. Socrates on "The Parts of Virtue" (SPV) 418.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pages [446]-454.

ISBN:

0691071624

OCLC:

8350154