Title: Plato, dramatist of the life of reason.
Authors: Randall, John Herman, 1899-1980
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1970
Subjects: Plato
Contents: The Dialogues as dramatic vision -- Plato the man -- The Platonic corpus -- The Greek heritage of Plato -- Plato's heritage from the early Greek philosophers -- Plato's immediate background : the Sophists -- The historical and the Platonic Socrates -- Plato's circle and audience -- Plato the artist-philosopher -- The philosophy of the artist and the artistic experience -- The theme of the good life -- The efficiently organized city : the Republic -- The good life : "later" treatment -- Plato's "ideas" -- Platonic idealism -- Platonic immortality -- Plato's "later" philosophy -- Plato's mathematical cosmology : his "unwritten philosophy" -- Plato's ethical cosmology : the Timaeus -- Epilogue : Plato and the tradition of "Platonism."