Philosophy of Plato

First Published in 2000. This is Volume VI of ten in the International Library of Philosophy in a series on Ancient Philosophy. Written around 1956, this book looks at Plato and his works on the biological, social, physical and intellectual background as well as his ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of religion and education, in comparison to his predecessors. Chapter one The Biological and Social Background; Chapter two The Physical Background; Chapter three The Intellectual Background; Chapter four The Philosophy of Plato; Chapter five The Philosophy of Plato; Chapter six Aesthetics I (Predecessors); Chapter seven Aesthetics II (Plato); Chapter eight Philosophy of Religion, I (Predecessors); Chapter nine Philosophy of Religion II (Plato); Chapter ten Philosophy of Education, I (Predecessors); Chapter eleven Philosophy of Education, II (Socrates and his Contemporaries); Chapter twelve Philosophy of Education, III (Plato in Relation to Socrates); Chapter thirteen Philosophy of Education, IV (Plato in Distinction from Socrates); Chapter fourteen Plato and Modem Philosophy;