New Images of Plato. Dialogues on the Idea of the Good. Edited by Giovanni Reale and Samuel Scolnicov. Academia Verlag A Sankt Augustin

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1 New Images of Plato Dialogues on the Idea of the Good Edited by Giovanni Reale and Samuel Scolnicov Academia Verlag A Sankt Augustin

2 Table of Contents Preface 11 List of contributors 13 Introduction Samuel Scolnicov New images of Plato 15 First dialogue: The 'Milan-Tubingen' school of interpretation Giovanni Reale The One-Good as the load-bearing concept in Plato's protology 29 Thomas Szlezak Die Einheit des Platonbildes in der Tubinger Schule': Methodologische Voraussetzungen 49 Hay den Ausland Critical approach: On reading the platonic dialogues esoterically 69

3 New Images of Plato. Dialogues on the Idea of the Good Second dialogue: The traditional and aporetic visions of Plato Luc Brisson L'approche traditionelle de Platon par H. F. Cherniss 85 Michael Erler Das Horensagen' von der Idee des Guten: Ein Motiv und Platons Auffassung von der Aporie 98 Maurizio Migliori Sul Bene: Materiali per una lettura dei dialoghi e delle testimonianze indirette 115 Some further consequences of the Doctrine of Principles Roberto Radice II 'principio senza nome' da Platone a Plotino: Una traccia di ricerca 150 Elisabetta Cattanei La matematica e il Bene: Alcune note su Platone, Repubblica, VI-VII 157 Raff aella Santi The dialectic of Good and Evil in the Republic and its connections with the One and the Many 176

4 Table of Contents Third dialogue: Ethics between hermeneutics and analytic philosophy Rafael Ferber The absolute Good and the human goods 187 Peter McCormick The ethics of virtue and Plato on ethical harmony 197 Christopher Gill Critical response to the hermeneutic approach from an analytic perspective 211 Fourth dialogue: The deconstructivists and the contextualists Mario Vegetti Dialogical context, theory of ideas and the question of the Good in book VI of the Republic 225 Gerald A. Press Sun and Good from the perspective of the history of philosophy 237

5 8 New Images of Plato. Dialogues on the Idea of the Good Fifth dialogue: The Good and virtue: A dialogue between analytical and classical ethics Christopher J. Rowe Socrates and Plato on virtue and the Good: An analytical approach 253 Franco Ferrari Statuto ontologico e forma di causalita: L'idea del Bene nella Repubblica 265 Czeslaw Por^bski Plato between ethics and politics 283 Franco Trabattoni L'orientamento al bene nella filosofia di Platone 294 Sixth dialogue: Plato - Dialectician, idealist or realist? Enrico Berti L'idea del Bene in relazione alia dialettica 307 Evanghelos Moutsopoulos Platon, idealiste ou realiste? 318

6 Table of Contents 9 Seventh dialogue: The Good as measure or as negation of any measure? Jean-Marc Narbonne L'heritage de Yepekeina dans la pensee d'emmanuel Levinas 333 John F. Crosby Does Plato in Republic IV surpass his intellectualism? 347 Eighth dialogue: The Good as paradigm Gerasimos Santas The form of the Good as paradigm and its essence 359 Lloyd Gerson The development of a doctrine of the Good and " Plato's development 379 Ninth dialogue: The knowledge of the absolute Good or metaphysics as an idol? John J. Dudley God as the foundation of Plato's and Aristotle's ethics 395 Josef Seifert The Idea of the Good as the sum-total of pure perfections: A new personalistic reading of Republic VI and VII 407