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Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- TITLE PAGE -- CONTENTS -- Dedication -- A Note on the Author -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Life and Times -- Chapter 2. Intellectual Background -- 1. Presocratic Philosophers -- 2. The Sophists -- Chapter 3. The Dialogues -- 1. Chronology of the Dialogues -- 2. Documenting the Limitations of Writing -- 3. The Neoplatonic Curriculum -- Chapter 4. Other Platonic Productions -- 1. Spuria -- 2. Dubia -- 3. Letters and Epistles -- 4. The "Unwritten Doctrines" -- Chapter 5: The Forms -- 1. Form(al) Introduction -- 2. Knowledge as Recollection -- 3. Truth and Opinion -- 4. The "Good-Beyond-Being" -- Chapter 6: God and the Soul -- 1. God -- 2. Soul -- Select Bibliography -- Humanities Insights.

First published in 1981, this unique study discusses the evolution of Plato's thought through the actual developments in Athenian democracy.

1. Plato and the modern world -- 2. The historical background -- 3. Socrates -- 4. Plato -- 5. Plato looks at British democracy -- 6. Plato looks at British education -- 7. Plato looks at the family -- 8. Plato looks at communism -- 9. Plato looks at facism -- 10. Why Plato failed -- 11. The modern Plato once more -- 12. Epilogue.

The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely, from political theory to literary criticism, from education to the nature of cowardice; but in view throughout this literary and philosophical masterpiece are the questions of what part knowledge plays in a successful life, and how we may acquire the knowledge that makes for success. This edition contains the first commentary in English on the Greek text for almost a hundred years. The commentary provides the assistance with linguistic, literary and philosophical detail that will enable students and scholars to savour to the full the pleasures of the Protagoras.

The article demonstrates unity in Plato's thought to a degree not heretofore realized and suggests analytical links to developments in logic, metaphysics and epistemology millennia later, substantiating Whitehead's famous comment that 'the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.'

"Why Plato Wrote is the first book to be published in the prestigious Blackwell Bristol Lecture Series in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics. She makes the case that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man. Allen contends that the roles of philosopher and message man were not mutually exclusive, and that Plato's pursuit of language as a vehicle for affecting cultural norms was grounded in his philosophy of language. Why Plato Wrote is a lucid and engaging commentary on Plato's philosophy of language and its relation to his political theory"--