Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-255) and indexes. Includes indexes.
Contents:
Preface -- 1. The attack. Introduction ; The poets ; Religion ; The musicians ; Rhetoric ; Philosophical art -- 2. The inconclusiveness of dialectic. The programme of dialectic ; 'Socratic' dialectic ; 'Platonic' dialectic ; Collection and division ; Hypothesis ; Philosophy and language -- 3. How the myths have fared. Philosophy and literature ; Stewart and the Christians ; Frutiger ; Popper and the Empiricists ; Findlay and the Intuitionists -- 4. Eschatological and related myths. Eschatology (Rep. X, 614A-621D; Phaedrus 246A-249D; Gorgias 522E-527E; Phaedo 107D-115A) ; Love and the soul (Phaedo 80D-84B; Tim. 69C-72D; Phaedr. 243ff.) ; Cosmology (Tim.; States. 268D-274E; Laws IV, 713A-714A) -- 5. Political myths. Origins of state (Rep. II, 369B-374B; Laws III, 676A-702A; Prot. 320C-323A) ; Anecdotes (Writing: Phaedr. 274C-275B; Grasshoppers: Phaedr. 259AD; Gyges: Rep. II, 359D-360B) ; Inequality (Metals: Rep. III, 414D-415D) ; Equality of women (Rep. V, 451C-457C) ; Decadence of ideal city (Rep. VIII, 545C-IX, 576B) ; Atlantis (Tim. 24D-25D; Critias 106A-121C) -- 6. Methodological myths. The theory of forms ; Reminiscence (Phaedo 72E-76E; Meno 85C-86B) ; Sun, line, and cave (Rep. VII, 508Aff; IV, 434E-441C) ; The ladder of beauty (Symp. 210A-212A) -- 7. The defence. Myths : old, new, and Platonic ; The weak defence ; The strong defence.
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