xxxvi, 372 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Socrates : questions of goodness and method. Meno's paradox and Socrates as a teacher -- Socratic intellectualism -- What did Socrates teach and to whom did he teach it? -- Voices of silence : on Gregory Vlastos's Socrates -- Eristic, antilogic, sophistic, dialectic : Plato's demarcation of philosophy from Sophistry -- Plato : questions of metaphysics and epistemology. On Parmenides' Three ways of inquiry -- Plato on the imperfection of the sensible world -- Confusing universals and particulars in Plato's early dialogues -- Self-predication and Plato's theory of forms -- Participation and predication in Plato's later thought -- Episteme and Logos in Plato's later thought -- Plato : questions of beauty and the arts. Plato on imitation and poetry in Republic X -- Plato and the mass media Plato : individual works. The symposium -- The republic -- The phaedrus.

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Plato.

Socrates.

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