Introducing Plato
A Graphic Guide
Published on 1. December 2014
176 pages
978-1-84831-884-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. It offers detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, especially the very odd theory of Forms, and concludes by revealing how Plato's philosophy stimulated the work of important modern thinkers such as Karl Popper, Martha Nussbaum, and Jacques Derrida.
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Dave Robinson has taught philosophy for many years and is the author of numerous Introducing titles. Judy Groves is an acclaimed graphic artist.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The King of Philosophers
- The World of Athens
- The Decline of Athens
- Socrates
- Foreign Travels
- The Academy
- The III-Advised Visits to Syracuse
- The Peaceful Academic
- Greek Civilization
- Greek Thought
- The City-States of Greece
- Plato's Warnings
- Influences on Plato: the Pre-Socratics
- The Religion of Mathematics
- Heraclitus: Everything Changes
- Pure and Applied Science
- Socrates' View of Knowledge
- Socratic Dialogue
- Virtue is Knowledge
- Seek the Essences
- Plato's Socrates
- The Euthyphro
- The Apology
- The Crito
- The Phaedo
- The Influence of Socrates on Plato
- The Sophists: Wisdom for Money
- Sophistic Relativism and Scepticism
- Protagoras
- The Meno
- Problems with Anamnesis
- Introduction to Plato's Republic
- Athens and the Perfect State
- Preliminary Discussions
- Thrasymachus
- The Poor Response
- Some Better Arguments
- The Ideological View of Morality
- Glaucon and Adeimantus
- Psychological Egoists
- The Social Contract Theory of Morality
- But Is It True?
- Plato's Epistemology
- What is Knowledge?
- Universals and Particulars
- Paradigms and Copies
- The Puzzling World of Forms
- Why Plato Needed the Forms
- A Short Digression
- Socratic Definitions
- Words, Ideas and Things
- Definitions and Forms
- Forms and Particulars
- The Relationship between Forms and Particulars
- Linguistic Determinism
- It's All Greek
- Perfect Knowledge: Perfect Republic
- Neat Answers
- Criticisms of the Theory of Forms
- More Problems
- Consequences
- True and Certain Knowledge
- So What Are Universals?
- Plato's Political Philosophy
- Argument by Analogy
- How Societies Begin
- The Division of Labour
- Educating the Republic's Soldiers
- The Myth of the Four Metals
- The Myth of the Cave
- What Does It Mean?
- The Harmonious Beehive and the Soul
- The Big Lie
- The Bizarre Life of a Guardian
- The Guardians and the Forms
- Moral Absolutism
- No Place For Art
- The State of Art
- The Paradox
- Criticisms
- The Ship of State
- The Wild Beast
- Plato and the People
- Against Utopianism
- What is the "Right" Government?
- The Laws
- Plato's Second Republic
- The Theocracy
- What Would Plato Do with Socrates?
- The Symposium
- Homosexual and Heterosexual Love
- So, What Is Love?
- The Purer Forms
- Alcibiades Enters
- The Timaeus
- Atlantis: Legend of the Lost City
- Cosmology in The Timaeus
- Triangular Particle-Theory
- Plato and String Theory
- The Chora
- The Sophist: Puzzles and Confusions
- Language, Thoughts and Things
- The Thaetetus
- Sensations and Knowledge
- Theories of Perception
- How Do We Have Wrong Thoughts?
- The Phaedrus
- What is Rhetoric?
- Against Writing
- Deconstructing Logocentrism
- Private and Public Voices
- Plato's Inheritors: Aristotle
- Platonists, Neo-Platonists and Others
- What Sort of Philosopher Is He?
- What Does a Philosopher Do?
- Dialogue Interrogation
- What Are the Answers?
- The Quest for Ideal Perfection
- Plato, the Escape-Artist
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
