Dmitri Nikulin 
The Other Plato 
The Tübingen Interpretation of Plato’s Inner-Academic Teachings

Offering a provocative alternative to the dominant approaches of Plato scholarship, the Tübingen School suggests that the dialogues do not tell the full story of Plato’s philosophical teachings. Texts and fragments by his students and their followers—most famously Aristotle’s
Physics—point to an ‘unwritten doctrine’ articulated by Plato at the Academy. These unwritten teachings had a more systematic character than those presented in the dialogues, which according to this interpretation were meant to be introductory. The Tübingen School reconstructs a historical, critical, and systematic account of Plato that takes into account testimony about these teachings as well as the dialogues themselves.
The Other Plato collects seminal and more recent essays by leading proponents of this approach, providing a comprehensive overview of the Tübingen School for English readers.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments



1. Plato: Testimonia et Fragmenta by D. Nikulin



2. Epekeina tēs oysias: On Plato Republic by H. J. Krämer



3. Plato’s Unwritten Doctrine by H. J. Krämer



4. Plato’s Synopsis of Mathematical Sciences by K. Gaiser



5. The Idea of the Good as Arkhē in Plato’s Republic by Th. A. Szlezàk



6. Monism and Dualism in Plato’s Doctrine of Principles by J. Halfwassen



7. Plato’s Foundation of the Euclidean character of Geometry by V. Hösle



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About the author

Dmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has written several books, including
Dialectic and Dialogue.