Toward a New Interpretation of Plato Book

	Introduction to the English Edition
	Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments
	Preface to the Italian Edition
	Bibliographical Note on Research in the New Paradigm
1	Kuhn's Epistemological Theory: The Meaning of Paradigms and the Nature of Scientific Revolutions	3
2	The Paradigms That Have Been Dominant in Plato Studies	23
3	The Starting Points of the New Paradigm: Plato's Self-Testimonies and the Testimonies of His Followers	51
4	The Advantages of Rereading Plato's Dialogues in the Light of the Unwritten Doctrines that Have Come Down to Us in the Indirect Tradition	75
5	The Second Voyage as the Decisive Move from the Level of the Physical Inquiries of the Presocratics to the Level of Metaphysical Inquiry into Supersensible Realities (Phaedo 96A-102A)	95
6	The Achievements of the First Stage of the Second Voyage: The Ideas, their Essential Properties, and the Protological Problems They Pose	109
7	The Completion of the Second Voyage: The Theory of the Highest Principles (the One and the Indefinite Dyad) and Its Structure and Role	143
8	The Ideal Numbers and the Ideas, Mathematical Numbers as Intermediates, and the Hierarchical Structure of Reality	153
9	The Intrinsic Polyvalence of the Principles, the Categorical Division of Reality, and the Twofold Procedure of the Dialectical Method That Leads to the Principles	167
10	Connections between Ancient Greek Aesthetics and Spirituality, and the Theory of Ideas, Numbers, and Principles	179
11	The Nature and Solution of the Major Metaphysical Problems of the Republic Left Unsolved in the Traditional Paradigm	191
12	The Transposition from Physical to Metaphysical Dialectic, Aporias Arising from the Theory of Ideas, and the Polarity of the Primary Principles in the Parmenides	221
13	The Trilogy Sophist, Statesman, and Philosopher Elucidated in Terms of the New Paradigm	237
14	Protological Themes in the Philebus concerning the General Structure of Reality	265
15	Eros and the Protology in the Lysis, Symposium, and Phaedrus	277
16	The Account of the Demiurge in the Phaedo, Republic, Sophist, and Statesman and Its Protological Consequences	305
17	The Four Highest Kinds of Reality: The Unlimited, the Limit, the Mixture, and the Demiurgic Intelligent Cause of the Mixture (Philebus 23C-31A)	335
18	The Metaphysical Basis of the Timaeus: The Creative Intelligence That Explains the World of Becoming; and Methodological Features of the Account's Presentation	359
19	The Cosmological Principle of Matter on Which the Demiurge of the Timaeus Acts and Its Relation to the Indefinite Dyad of the Unwritten Doctrines	369
20	The Activity of the Demiurge: The Production of Unity-in-Multiplicity and the Creation of the Elements and Souls in the Timaeus	391
21	Conclusions about the Figure of the Demiurge and Its Relations to the Protology	417
	Bibliography	435
	Index of Passages of Plato Cited	447
	Index of Passages of Other Ancient Authors Cited	453
	Index of Modern Authors Cited	457