New Essays on Plato

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780919491090


Essays on Timaeus, Parmenides, Philebus, and other dialogues are included here. Plato"s theory of justice, his accusation against poetry, the third man argument, and the theory of relations are discussed, along with other topics. Contents: Plato and Pericles on Freedom and Politics; The Craft of Justice; Plato"s Greatest Accusation against Poetry; Belief, Knowledge and Learning in Plato"s Middle Dialogues; Plato"s Timaeus; Mass Terms, Sortal Terms, and Identity through Time in the Phenomenal World; Timaeus 48e-52d and the Third Man Argument; Plato"s Parmenides Theory of Relations; Philebus 55c-62a and Revisionism; Knowledge in Philebus 55c-62a: A Response.