Platonic Conversations

by McCabe, Mary Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780191796906
• ISBN10: 0191796905
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-05-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mary Margaret McCabe, King's College London

Mary Margaret McCabe works on ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of medicine; she has published mostly on Plato but also on the Presocratics, on Aristotle, and on the Stoics. She was Fellow in Classics at New Hall, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1990; in 1990 she moved to King's College London, and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy there from 1998 to 2014. She has spent extended periods in the USA (at Princeton, Harvard, and elsewhere) and will be the 2016-7 Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, delivering the Sather lectures. She is much engaged with the nature and future of the universities, and of philosophy in the universities; she was President of the British Philosophical Association from 2009 to 2012, and will be the President of the Mind Association in 2016-7.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
I On dialectic and method
2. Heraclitus and the art of paradox
3. 'The moving posset stands still': Heraclitus fragment 125
4. Parmenides' dilemma
5. Myth, allegory, and argument in Plato
6. Dialectic is as dialectic does
7. Does your Plato bite?
8. Unity in the Parmenides: the unity of the Parmenides
II On knowledge and virtue in Plato
9. Looking inside Charmides' cloak
10. 'Escaping one's own notice knowing': Meno's paradox again
11. From the cradle to the cave: what happened to self-knowledge in the Republic?
12. Indifference readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic Ethics
13. Out of the labyrinth: Plato's attack on consequentialism
III On Aristotle's conversations with Plato
14. 'Perceiving that we see and hear': Aristotle on Plato on judgement and reflection
15. Some conversations with Plato: Aristotle, Metaphysics Z. 13-16
16. 1. With mirrors or without: self-perception in Eudemian Ethics 7.12
Bibliography of works cited
Index locorum
General Index