Maieusis

• Introduction ; 1. Looking inside Charmides' cloak: seeing others and oneself in Plato's Charmides ; 2. Socrates and philosophy as a way of life ; 3. Virtue as the love of knowledge in Plato's Symposium and Republic ; 4. Equal sticks and stones ; 5. The Phaedo's final argument ; 6. Beauty of the body, nobility of soul: the pursuit of love in Plato's Symposium ; 7. Eros, philosophy, and tyranny ; 8. Virgil's sacred duo: Phaedrus's Symposium speech and Aeneid IX ; 9. Plato on war ; 10. Language in the cave ; 11. Metaspeleology ; 12. Why no Platonistic Ideas of artefacts? ; 13. Plato on what is not ; 14. The soul as an inner principle of change: the basis of Aristotle's psychological naturalism ; 15. Aristotle's De Interpretatione 8 is about ambiguity ; 16. Sextan scepticism ; 17. The wife of Philinus, or the doctors' dilemma: medical signs and cases and non- deductive inference ; 18. Self-refutation and the sorites ; 19. Ideas leap barriers: the value of historical studies to philosophy ; Bibliography of publications by Myles Burnyeat ; Index

This volume is a well-deserved festschrift for Myles Burnyeat. Burnyeat is one of the leading ancient philosophers of his generation: his writings have reinvigorated many old debates and opened up new ones...Superd and thought-provoking articles... They will stimulate, I am sure, much productive future research and form a fitting tribute to Myles Burnyeat.