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Philosophy in Review
Gail Fine, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Plato . Reviewed by
2010 •
Patrick Mooney
Elenchos
Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato - reviewed by Karel Thein
2009 •
Karel Thein
A review of Gail Fine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, 604 pp.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato 2nd Edition
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato 2nd Edition
2022 •
Mateo Duque
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 work. This fully updated 2nd edition includes 19 newly commissioned entries on topics ranging across comedy, tragedy, Xenophon, metatheatre, gender, musical theory, animals, Orphism, political theory, religion, time, Hellenistic philosophy and post-Platonic ancient commentaries. It also features revisions to the majority of articles from the 1st edition, including 8 which have been completely re-written, and 12 which have had the references substantially revised. Reflecting the growing diversity of Plato scholarship across the world, this edition includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who enrich the field and provide students and scholars with a vital resource for study and reference.
The Platonic Art of Philosophy, ed. by G. Boys-Stones, D. El Murr, and Ch. Gill (TOC). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Dimitri El Murr, George Boys-Stones
is is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. e authors represent scholarly traditions which are very di erent in their approaches and interests, and rarely brought into dialogue with each other. is volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary and philosophical unity of Plato’s works; the presence and role of his contemporaries in his dialogues; the function of myth (especially the Atlantis myth); Plato’s Socratic heritage, especially as played out in his discussions of psychology; his views on truth and being. Prominent among the dialogues discussed are Euthydemus, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Republic, eaetetus, Timaeus, Sophist and Laws. George Boys-Stones is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Durham University. Dimitri El Murr is lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Junior member of the institut Universitaire de France. Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient ought at the University of Exeter.
Cambridge Companion to Plato
Introduction to the Study of Plato
This chapter offers a guide to reading Plato’s dialogues, including an overview of his corpus. We recommend first considering each dialogue as its own unified work, before considering how it relates to the others. In general, the dialogues explore ideas and arguments, rather than presenting parts of a comprehensive philosophical system that settles on final answers. The arc of a dialogue frequently depends on who the individual interlocutors are. We argue that the traditional division of the corpus (into Socratic, middle, late stages) is useful, regardless of whether it is a chronological division. Our overview of the corpus gives special attention to the Republic, since it interweaves so many of his key ideas, even if nearly all of them receive longer treatments in other dialogues. Although Plato recognized the limits inherent in written (as opposed to spoken) philosophy, he devoted his life to producing these works, which are clearly meant to help us seek the deepest truths. Little can be learned from reports of Plato’s oral teaching or the letters attributed to him. Understanding the dialogues on their own terms is what offers the greatest reward.
Perspectives on Political Science, Special Issue
Symposium on Plato's Philosophers
2011 •
Dustin Gish
Edited volume with contributions by Arlene Saxonhouse, Catherine Zuckert, Gerald Mara, Mary Nichols, Robert Kraynak, Jill Gordon, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Dustin Gish.
Reimagining Plato: A Very Brief Sketch [2017] / Conference-Paper Section
Carlos Segovia
This short paper reproduces section 1 of a larger paper titled ‘The Renewed Interpretation of the Platonic Corpus and the Qur’ān: How Formulating More Accurate Questions Leads to Finding Better Answers,’ to be presented to the 2018 Inarah Conference in Saarbrücken, March 8-11, 2018 (available online here: https://www.academia.edu/34630532/The_Renewed_Interpretation_of_the_Platonic_Corpus_and_the_Qur_ān_How_Formulating_More_Accurate_Questions_Leads_to_Finding_Better_Answers_2018_Upcoming_Conference_Paper).
Plato: Ancient Philosophies, 8 (Mouseion 2011)
Seamus O'Neill
A New Way of Reading Plato
William H . F . Altman
Invited lecture given at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 21, 2022.
Ancient Philosophy
Review of Gail Fine, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Plato
2011 •
William Prior
This is a review of Gail Fine's important collection of articles on Plato. The articles are excellent, and all of them can be studied with profit by scholars. Only some of them, however, will be accessible to readers without knowledge of the secondary literature on Plato. One criticism I raise of the collection is that, while it contains a comprehensive treatment of several aspects of Plato's thought, it lacks such a treatment of his theory of Forms. Aspects of the theory are dealt with in several articles, but there is no discussion of the theory from its origins in the Euthyphro to the Laws.
