Title: Platonic studies of Greek philosophy : form, arts, gadgets, and hemlock /
Authors: Brumbaugh, Robert Sherrick, 1918-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Plato; Aristotle; Philosophy, Ancient.
Contents: Part 1: Reinterpreting Plato's republic -- A new interpretation of Plato's Republic -- Interpreting Book V when the Republic is read as Dialectic -- Republic VI: The divided line -- Republic VII: The ideal curriculum and education -- Republic VIII-IX: On mathematical imagery -- Part 2: On some platonic questions -- Doctrine and dramatic dates in Plato's later dialogues -- Diction and dialectic: A note on the Sophist -- Plato's Atlantis: myth or history? -- The text and intention of Plato's Parmenides -- Part 3: Platonic thoughts about Aristotle -- If Aristotle had become head of the academy -- The unity of Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Aristotle as a mathematician -- Part 4: Ideal form in a world of gadgets -- The world of the Greek philosophers and the sense of form -- Classical gadgets, the hardware of early Western science -- Scientific apparatus onstage in 423 B.C. -- Plato's relation to the arts and crafts -- Part 5: The feminine, genres, and once again the Hemlock -- Four definitions of women in classical philosophy -- Philosophy and literary style: two paradigms of classical examples -- The trial of Socrates -- All the great ideas -- My final lecture on the history of ancient philosophy.