2008-2-PHI130.Week03

Week 3: Plato's Doctrine of Forms

Readings

Plato, Republic, Section VII

Plato, Republic, Section VII, 514-521, p.376-383; Section X, 596-598, p.468-471. In The dialogues of Plato, vol.II, trans. by B. Jowett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964).

Plato, Timaeus

Plato, Timaeus, trans. D. Lee (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977), p.72-79

The many faces of science

L. Stevenson and H. Byerly, The many faces of science (Westview Press, 1995), p.52-63.

Ideal cities

R. Eaton, Ideal cities (London: Thames and Hudson, 2001), p.196-204.