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Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls Zdravko Planinc, Editor University of Missouri Press Politics, Philosophy,Writing This page intentionally left blank Politics, Philosophy, Writing i PLATO’S ART OF CARING FOR SOULS Edited with an Introduction by Zdravko Planinc University ofMissouri Press Columbia and London Copyright © 2001by The Curators ofthe University ofMissouri University ofMissouri Press,Columbia,Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 05 04 03 02 01 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Politics,philosophy,writing :Plato’s art ofcaring for souls / edited by Zdravko Planinc. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8262-1343-X (alk.paper) 1. Plato. I. Planinc,Zdravko,1953– B395.P63 2001 184—dc21 00-066603 V∞™This paper meets the requirements ofthe American National Standard for Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials,Z39.48,1984. Designer:Kristie Lee Typesetter:The Composing Room ofMichigan,Inc. Printer and Binder:The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Typeface:Minion For Alexander Tessier This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction 1 Zdravko Planinc Soulcare and Soulcraft in the Charmides Toward a Platonic Perspective 11 Horst Hutter Shame in the Apology 42 Oona Eisenstadt The Strange Misperception ofPlato’s Meno 60 Leon Craig “A Lump Bred Up in Darknesse” Two Tellurian Themes ofthe Republic 80 Barry Cooper Homeric Imagery in Plato’s Phaedrus 122 Zdravko Planinc “One,Two,Three,but Where Is the Fourth?” Incomplete Mediation in the Timaeus 160 Kenneth Dorter Mystic Philosophy in Plato’s Seventh Letter 179 James M.Rhodes About the Contributors 249 Index 251 vii This page intentionally left blank Politics, Philosophy,Writing

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