Introduction Part I. Backgrounds 1. Plato's Life and Works 2. The Contexts for Interpreting Plato's Dialogues Part II. Sources of Perplexity: Change 3. A Brief History of Platonism and Plato Interpretation 4. Dialogue Form 5. Arguments and Ideas, Vision and Doctrines 6. Fables, Myths, and Stories 7. Irony and other forms of humor 8. Play and seriousness 9. Paradox Part III. Plato's Philosophy: Permanence 10. Platonic Anonymity and the Nature of Plato's Philosophy 11. Persistent Themes and Plato's Vision 12. The Platonic Path to Wisdom Part IV: Help in Reading and Understanding Plato's Dialogues and His Philosophy 13. How to Read a Platonic Dialogue 14. Summaries of the Dialogues Glossary of Greek Terms Bibliography.
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