Plato and Platonism: Plato's Conception of Appearence and Reality in Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethnics, and its Modern Echoes

Introduction.

Part I: How does Reality Account for Appearances? Plato's Notions of the Fundamental, the Good and the Intelligible:.

1. Insight and Activity.

2. The Forms: Plato's Discovery.

3. What We Are and What We Should Be.

Part II: The Many-Splendored Nature of the Forms, and the Ontology of Order:.

4. The Parmenides: Forms and Participation Reconsidered.

5. The Eleatic-proof theory of Forms of the Sophist.

6. The Ontology of Order Reconsidered: The Divisions and the Philebus.

Part III: Platonism, Ancient and Modern:.

7. Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics and General Ontology.

8. Platonistic Ethics: Effecting Reorientation and Sustaining Ideals.

Bibliography.

Index.