Plato's vision Book

	Preface
1	Introduction: History and Social Structure	1
	The Emergence of Democracy	4
	Tyranny	6
	Athenian Democracy	10
	Solon (c. 594/3)	13
	Cleisthenes (c. 508/7)	15
	The Persian-Greek Wars	16
	Slavery in the Democracy	19
	The Athenian Empire	20
2	From Religion to Philosophy	25
	Greek Polytheism	25
	Plato's Predecessors	[s.n.]
	The Sophists	[s.n.]
	Protagoras	38
	Gorgias	39
3	Socrates	43
	The "Spartan" Habits of Socrates' Associates	50
	Socrates in Aristophanes' The Clouds	52
	The Theory of "Forms" or "Ideas"	54
	The Forms as Manifestations of Moira	57
	The Trial and Execution of Socrates	69
4	Plato	65
	The Apology and the Crito	70
	Other Early Dialogues	74
	The Meno, Protagoras, and Gorgias	77
	The Protagoras	79
	The Gorgias	83
5	The Republic	91
	The Debate with Thrasymachus	96
	Plato's Ideal Society	99
	The Classes of the Ideal Society	103
	Sparta or Athens	107
	Plato's Theory of the Mind	109
	Education in The Republic	111
	Education of the Philosopher-Rulers	112
	Plato's Theory of Communism	116
	Communism of Wives	121
	The Republic: Utopia or Program for Actual States?	125
	Social Systems	127
	Rebuttal of Thrasymachus' Argument	132
	Plato's National Ideal	133
6	The Statesman: A Transitional Phase in Plato's Thinking	135
	Plato's Weaver Analogy	142
7	The Laws: Plato's Last Thoughts	147
	The Central Principle of the Laws	151
	War and Peace	152
	Property and Wealth	155
	Marriage and the Family	159
	Government in the Laws	161
	The State Apparatus in the Laws	166
	The Return to the Republic	170
	References	173
	Acknowledgments	175
	Index	177