The Oxford Handbook of Plato

This volume consists of 28 specially commissioned essays. It begins with a synoptic introduction. There are then 3 chapters setting the scene (one on Plato in his place and time, one on the Platonic corpus, and one on Plato and his ways of writing). There are then 11 chapters that are devoted to individual dialogues, ranging from his earliest through his latest. The dialogues discussed include Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro: Protagoras and Gorgias; Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Parmenides; Theaetetus; Timaeus; Sophist; Philebus; and Laws. The next 11 chapters focus on topics across a range of dialogues. These chapters include discussion of Socrates’s epistemology and metaphysics, and of his ethics and moral psychology; of Plato’s epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of language; and of Plato on the soul, on ethics, on love, on politics, on education and art, and on theology. The volume closes with a chapter on Aristotle’s criticism of Plato, and one on Plato and Platonism.