A Less Familiar Plato

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His recent publications include Love, Friendship, Beauty and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the later tradition, 2018; Plotinus. Ennead VI 8, On the Free Will of the One, 2017 (with John D. Turner). A Text Worthy of Plotinus: The Correspondence of A. H. Armstrong, Paul Henry S. J., Hans-Rudolph Schwyzer, E. R. Dodds, Jean Trouillard, Jésus Igal, 1952–1989, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020 (with Suzanne Stern-Gillet and José Baracat); and Plotin. Plotin. Oeuvres complètes, Traités 30-33, Tome 2. Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 482. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021 (with Jean-Marc Narbonne, Lorenzo Ferroni, John D. Turner, Zeke Mazur, Simon Fortier).

I. Embodiment and Participation in the Divine: 1. The Phaedo: embodiment, disembodiment, and the question of 'self'; 2. The place and scope of participation in the divine in Plato and Aristotle; II. Introduction to the Republic and Philebus, Chapters 4-6: 3. The Training of perception: views of Art in the Republic and other works; 4. The non-hypothetical good: art, mind, imagination in the Republic; 5. Is the idea of the good beyond being?; 6. The Philebus-to Stand in the porches of the good and the dwelling of the such; III. Introduction to Love, Myth, Erotikē Technē, and Generative Epistēmē (Chapters 7-9): 7. Love and myth: Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus; 8. Desire, love, and friendship: a reading of the Lysis, Alcibiades I, Symposium, and Phaedrus; 9. The many questions of Plato's Phaedrus: did Plato write a commentary on his own work? 10. General conclusion; Appendix: scientific perception or sharp seeing in the middle and late dialogues.