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"This is an unusually well coordinated composite work, with a lengthy bibliography and good index. ... The volume can be commended to the use of graduate students and advanced undergraduates." Religious Studies Review

"...should prove quite useful....For its intended audience, and also their instructors, this Companion will live up to its name, and Kraut and his contributors are to be commended." R.E. Houser, International Philosophical Quarterly

"Richard Kraut has put together a rich collection of fifteen newly-commisioned articles on various aspects of Plato's thought, plus an extensive bibliography of secondary articles and books...". Ancient Philosophy

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Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also analyses of the intellectual and social background of his thought, the development of his philosophy throughout his career, the range of alternative approaches to his work, and the stylometry of his writing.

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We lack the materials for a proper biography of Plato. Read the first page

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elenctic reply, reply formulae, tree predications, eristic paradox, anything about virtue, aitias logismos, hiatus avoidance, demotic virtues, unwritten opinions, human eudaimonia, mimetic poet, late ontology, generic love, acquaintance model, oral doctrine, equal sticks, late dialogues, middle dialogues, translated with notes, perceptible objects, one errs, false pleasures, perceptible thing, unwritten doctrines, early dialogues

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Plato's Moral Theory, Gregory Vlastos, Plato's Republic, Richard Kraut, Third Man, Nocturnal Council, Form of the Good, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Plato's Symposium, Garden City, New York, Platonic Studies, History of Greek Philosophy, Plato's Phaedrus, Diogenes Laertius, Greater Mysteries, Hippias Minor, Lesser Mysteries, Cambridge University Press, Classical Quarterly, Hippias Major, Oxford Studies, Plato's Cretan City, Plato's Parmenides

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