The author provides a translation of 'Timaeus', together with the 'Critias', the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato's words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.

This work provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them.

Did Plato abandon, or sharply modify, the Theory of Forms in later life? In the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic it is generally agreed that Plato held that universals exist. But in Parmenides, he subjected that theory to criticism. If the criticism were valid, and Plato knew so, then the Parmenides marks a turning point in his thought. If, however, Plato became aware that there are radical differences in the logical behaviour of concepts, and the later dialogues are a record of his attempt to analyse those differences, then Plato's thought can be said to have moved in a new and vitally...

Ian Crombie's volumes provide a comprehensive interpretation of Plato's doctrines. Volume 2 deals with more technical philosophical topics, including the theory of knowledge, philosophy of nature, and the methodology of science and philosophy.

This book tackles the problematic relationship between Platonic philosophy and Romantic poetry, between the intellect and the emotions. Drawing on contemporary critical theory, especially hermeneutics and deconstruction, the author shows that a dialogue between thinking and poetizing is possible.

This text explores the history of the individual within the context of Plato's social thought. The author examines Plato's treatment of the principal crises in a life: birth, educational selection, sex, the individual's contract with society, old age, death and life after death, and provides an analysis of Plato's theory of genetics.

The author argues that Plato was fully conscious of the fallacious character of a number of his arguments and that he sometimes made deliberate use of fallacy as an indirect means of setting forth certain of his fundamental philosophical views.

Edward Urwick's original work draws upon Plato's best known work, 'The Republic', to provide a new interpretation of Plato's teaching based upon Indian religious thought.