《柏拉图》一书，邀集十余位欧美学界研究柏拉图的权威专家，以15篇全新专文综述近年来的研究成果，分别讨论柏拉图关于知识、真实、数学、政治、伦理、爱、诗、宗教等方面的观点，对其思想和哲学发展进行社会和知识背景分析，同时以写作风格和编年等问题为焦点，分析其不同时期的对话。书后附有三十余页参考文献目录，以及非常有用的名词和主题索引。

  List of contributors

  Chronology

  Abbreviations

1 Introduction to the study of Plato

  RICHARD KRAUT

2 Plato: The intellectual background

  T. H. IRWIN

3 Stylometry and chronology

  LEONARD BRANDWOOD

4 Socrates and the early dialogues

  TERRY PENNER

5 Mathematical method and philosophical truth

  IAN MUELLER

6 Inquiry in the Meno

  GAIL FINE

7 Plato and Greek religion

  MICHAEL L. MORGAN

8 Platonic love

 G. R. F. FERRARI

9 Plato's metaphysical epistemology

 NICHOLAS P. WHITE

10 The defense of justice in Plato's Republic

 RICHARD KRAUT

11 Plato on poetic creativity

 ELIZABETH ASMIS

12 Good-bye to the Third Man

 CONSTANCE C. MEINWALD

13 Plato's Sophist on false statements

 MICHAEL FREDE

14 Disintegration and restoration: Pleasure and pain

in Plato's Philebus

 DOROTHEA FREDE

15 Plato's later political thought

 TREVOR 1. SAUNDERS

Bibliography

Index of names and subjects

Index of passages