The Oxford Handbook of Plato

Plato is the best known and continues to be the most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one commissioned articles in The Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history.Each article is an original contribution from a leading scholar and they all serve several functions at once: they survey the lay of the land; express and develop the authors'' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives.This Handbook contains chapters on metaphysics epistemology love language ethics politics art and education. Individual chapters are devoted to each of the following dialogues: the Republic Parmenides Theaetetus Sophist Timaeus and Philebus. There are also chapters on Plato and the dialogue form; on Plato in his time and place; on the history of the Platonic corpus; on Aristotle''s criticism of Plato and on Plato and Platonism.