Book contents
- The Platonic Art of Philosophy
- Frontispiece
- The Platonic Art of Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter One Macrology and digression
- Chapter Two Two conceptions of the body in Plato’s Phaedrus
- Chapter Three Socrates in the Phaedo
- Chapter Four Socratic intellectualism in the Republic’s central digression
- Chapter Five Timaeus in the cave
- Chapter Six Reflective commentary (1)
- Chapter Seven Reflective commentary (2)
- Chapter Eight Waving or drowning? Socrates and the sophists on self-knowledge in the Euthydemus
- Chapter Nine Why was the Theaetetus written by Euclides?
- Chapter Ten The Wooden Horse
- Chapter Eleven The Wax Tablet, logic and Protagoreanism
- Chapter Twelve A form that ‘is’ of what ‘is not’
- Chapter Thirteen Truth and story in the Timaeus-Critias
- Chapter Fourteen The Atlantis poem in the Timaeus-Critias
- Chapter Fifteen Friendship and justice in the Laws
- Bibliography
- Christopher Rowe
- Index of ancient passages
- Index of topics
Chapter Twelve - A form that ‘is’ of what ‘is not’
Existential einai in Plato’s Sophist
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- The Platonic Art of Philosophy
- Frontispiece
- The Platonic Art of Philosophy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations and conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter One Macrology and digression
- Chapter Two Two conceptions of the body in Plato’s Phaedrus
- Chapter Three Socrates in the Phaedo
- Chapter Four Socratic intellectualism in the Republic’s central digression
- Chapter Five Timaeus in the cave
- Chapter Six Reflective commentary (1)
- Chapter Seven Reflective commentary (2)
- Chapter Eight Waving or drowning? Socrates and the sophists on self-knowledge in the Euthydemus
- Chapter Nine Why was the Theaetetus written by Euclides?
- Chapter Ten The Wooden Horse
- Chapter Eleven The Wax Tablet, logic and Protagoreanism
- Chapter Twelve A form that ‘is’ of what ‘is not’
- Chapter Thirteen Truth and story in the Timaeus-Critias
- Chapter Fourteen The Atlantis poem in the Timaeus-Critias
- Chapter Fifteen Friendship and justice in the Laws
- Bibliography
- Christopher Rowe
- Index of ancient passages
- Index of topics
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- The Platonic Art of Philosophy , pp. 221 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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