The philosopher's song : The poet's influence on Plato / Kevin Crotty.

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Preface -- Introduction -- Achilles' insight : poetic and moral consciousness in Homer -- Iliad 24 and achilles' insight -- Multiple causation and moral responsibility -- The poetics of justice : Aeschylus' Oresteia and Plato's Republic -- Justice and violence -- Is tragedy inevitable? -- The quarrel between poetry and philosophy concerning justice -- Socrates' intellectual crisis : the Phaedo -- Philosophy and vengeance -- Philosophy and asceticism -- Socrates' intellectual crisis -- The philosopher's song -- Excursus to chapter 3 : myth in Plato -- The greatest charge against mimetic poetry -- The relation between spectators and the performance -- Mimetic poetry as narrative poetry -- Philosophy and narrative as different ways of "making sense" -- Mimetic poetry as "anti-form" -- Images and non-being -- Proliferating the tiers of existence -- How many forms are there? -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the Sophist -- Is falsehood possible? : the problem of being -- A new philosophical method -- The new centrality of language -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the possibility of false statements -- The metaphysics of fallibility : the fallibility of the division method -- The metaphysics of fallibility : any metaphysical approach has its deficits -- The statesman : the tragedy of politics and the shape of Plato's thought -- The grand myth -- A new issue for political philosophy -- The statesman and law -- The conflict within virtue -- The shape of Plato's thought -- Excursus to chapter 6 : the statesman as philosophical commentary on Sophocles' Antigone.