New Images of Plato

Dialogues on the Idea of the Good

Edited by Giovanni Reale and Samuel Scolnicov

Academia Verlag A Sankt Augustin 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 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 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 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 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