Plato's Progress

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Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature. Front cover Title page Contents Chapter I: The Disorders 1 Aristotle and Plato (i) Disciple or rebel? (ii) Aristotle's description of Plato (iii) Non-Platonic influences on Aristotle (iv) The remote Plato (v) Plato and the Topics 2 Plato (i) Plato's Floruit (ii) Plato's Platonism (iii) The crisis (iv) Natural science (v) The Theory of Forms (vi) Dialectic 3 Conclusion Chapter II: The Publication of Dialogues 1 Book-reading 2 The recitation of dialogues 3 Games-audiences 4 The mammoth dialogues Chapter III: Plato and Sicily 1 Who invited Plato to come to Syracuse in 367? 2 What were Isocrates, Plato, etc., invited for? 3 The real Dion 4 The forger 5 Plato's third visit to Sicily 6 Aristotle and Sicily Chapter IV: Dialectic 1 Foreword 2 Aristotle's Art of Dialectic 3 The earlier history of dialectic (i) Zeno (ii) Euclides (iii) Protagoras (iv) The 'Dissoi Logoi' (v) The Hippocratic Writings (vi) Euthydemus and Dionysodorus (vii) Socrates (viii) Antisthenes (ix) Plato 4 Plato's dialectic vis-à-vis eristic 5 The minor values of dialectic 6 The philosophical value of dialectic 7 Conclusion Chapter V: The Crisis 1 The charges against Socrates 2 The charges against 'Socrates' 3 Evidence 4 Plato's co-defendants 5 Epilogue Chapter VI: The Disappearance of the Eristic Dialogue 1 The abandonment of the elenchus 2 The organization of the eristic Moot 3 The minuting of debates 4 Dialogues and the minutes of debates 5 Why the eristic dialogue vanished 6 From eristic to philosophy 7 Eristic and the Theory of Forms Chapter VII: The Timetable 1 Foreword 2 The eristic dialogues 3 The Apology and the Crito 4 The foundation of the Academy 5 The Phaedo and the Symposium 6 The Critias 7 The Timaeus 8 The Republic 9 The Philebus 10 The Laws 11 The Phaedrus 12 The Cratylus 13 The Theaetetus 14 The Sophist 15 The Politicus 16 The Parmenides 17 A stylometric difficulty Acknowledgements Index A. General B. Persons (Real and Mythical) C. Places (Real and Mythical) D. Individual Texts of Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, Isocrates, Plato, Plutarch and Xenophon Back cover [digitized by FurloSK, v1]