Title: Plato for the modern age.
Authors: Brumbaugh, Robert Sherrick, 1918-
Publisher: Crowell-Collier Press
Year: 1962
Subjects: Plato
Abstract: Introduction for the general reader, presenting the Greek philosopher's teachings as provocative source of contemporary ideas.
Contents: Part one: Philosophy and inquiry. Young Plato in Athens -- Plato and Socrates -- Science and sophistry -- Part two: Speculation and system. Travel and the academy -- The speculative vision: order, fact, and value -- Part three: Experiment and analysis: the system tested. Science in the academy -- Reason and history: the Atlantis legend -- Eudoxus and Megara: brilliant but provoking neighbors and colleagues -- Knowledge and opinion once more -- The political experiment in Sicily -- New philosophical analysis -- Part four: Plato's latest work. The late discussions in the academy -- Plato's last project: the model legal code -- Part five: History. The fortunes of the academy, 347 B.C. to 529 A.D. -- The history of Plato's text -- Part six: An appraisal: the academy's programs and ideas, 2500 years late. The program for formal logic -- Structure and process: modern philosophies of flow -- Etheical sensitivity: an area of progress since Plato's time.