PHIL 606 The Origins of the Platonic Tradition
The aim of this course will be to identify the basic features of Plato's developing metaphysics and philosophical psychology. It will require detailed reading of the Symposium and the Republic with more than passing glances at other dialogues, both earlier and later, but especially the Phaedo, Phaedrus, Sophist and Philebus. Its purpose will be to give an account of Plato's position without anachronistic readings, yet still with an eye to contemporary philosophical needs.