englischThe difficulties in interpreting Plato depend on a misunderstanding of his writing technique. To overcome them, this study focuses on his technique, based on a laborious game, by which he prompts the reader to take action in response to his provocations and to his use of Socratic maieutics: [...]

englischThis book contains eight long essays, which have never been published in English and which offer a highly original reconstruction of the different elements of Platonic thought, starting with reflections on the writing techniques ‘invented’ by Plato. Two dialogues, the Phaedrus and the [...]

This book concerns the soul/body problem in Plato and Aristotle. Established as well as early career scholars actually working on Plato and Aristotle explore - under different points of view as well as through original readings and interpretations - the manifold dimensions involved in the conception [...]

There is a substantial difference between our way of 'philosophizing', born out of Descartes' clear and well-defined thinking and bent on building alternative (aut-aut) models, and the classical (especially Platonic-Aristotelian) way where a constant use of technical and methodical pluralism serves [...]

The title of this volume alludes to Phaedrus 255d, where Socrates says that the lover is, as it were, the mirror in which the beloved beholds himself. Mirrors provide a chance to overcome some of the natural limitations of vision - and in particular they enable us to see that which otherwise would [...]

Euthydemus was for a long time and until quite recently a neglected dialogue of Plato, almost by common accord treated as a motley collection of barely disguised sophistic fallacies. This book shows not only that the dialogue is to be taken seriously, but also that it is, in fact, a very important [...]

The concept of the soul, one of the greatest 'inventions' of Greek philosophy, which crossed the whole history of the Western civilisation, was defined in its fundamental philosophical features by Plato. Developing the numerous issues naturally linked to this concept, Plato's thought does not only [...]

englischThe three dialogues, which are the object of the collected papers included in this volume, are a unicum in the Platonic corpus. No other existing trilogy is connected dramatically so clearly as they are. From the formal point of view, in these texts Plato shows his brilliant literary ability [...]

englischThis reading of the Sophist differs from traditional ones.An author must be read in the light of the way he writes. It is common knowledge that Plato's writing technique represents one of the central issues for all scholars. Here the argued thesis is that Plato is a good teacher in the [...]

englischThis book includes selected papers from the International Colloquium 'Plato Ethicus: philosophy is life' (Piacenza, Italy), organised by M. Migliori (Univ. of Macerata) and L. M. Napolitano Valditara (Univ. of Trieste), The variety of approaches adopted on the issue of Platonic ethics is [...]