Plato 2

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She is author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Forms (1993), and co-editor of Aristotle: Selections (1995) and Aristotle: Introductory Readings (1996).

The articles are all reader-friendly, following the editors aim of an open and discussion-orientated style...The writers assume an interest in their readers and, without patronising, they generally engage it. Thus, the difficult becomes not a barrier but a challenge. The collection, through its scope and quality, will be a standard for some time to come.

• Introduction ; 1. Socrates and Democracy ; 2. Socratic Piety ; 3. The Unity of Virtue ; 4. Happiness and Virtue in Socrates' Moral Theory ; 5. The Individual as Object of Love in Plato ; 6. Republic II: Objections to Justice ; 7. Plato's Theory of Human Motivation ; 8. Plato's Defense of Justice ; 9. Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521 ; 10. The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic ; 11. Plato's Republic and Feminism ; 12. Plato's Totalitarianism ; 13. Utopia and Fantasy: The Practicability of Plato's Ideally Just City ; 14. The Idea of Godlikeness ; 15. Plato's Theory of Human Good in the Philebus ; 16. Rumplestiltskin's Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus ; 17. Persuasion, Compulsion, and Freedom in Plato's Laws ; 18. The Soul and Immortality ; 19. Immortality and the Nature of the Soul in the Phaedrus ; Notes on the Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names