Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-445) and indexes.
Bibliographical Note on Research in the New Paradigm -- 1. Kuhn's Epistemological Theory: The Meaning of Paradigms and the Nature of Scientific Revolutions -- 2. The Paradigms That Have Been Dominant in Plato Studies -- 3. The Starting Points of the New Paradigm: Plato's Self-Testimonies and the Testimonies of His Followers -- 4. The Advantages of Rereading Plato's Dialogues in the Light of the Unwritten Doctrines that Have Come Down to Us in the Indirect Tradition -- 5. The Second Voyage as the Decisive Move from the Level of the Physical Inquiries of the Presocratics to the Level of Metaphysical Inquiry into Supersensible Realities (Phaedo 96A-102A) -- 6. The Achievements of the First Stage of the Second Voyage: The Ideas, their Essential Properties, and the Protological Problems They Pose -- 7. The Completion of the Second Voyage: The Theory of the Highest Principles (the One and the Indefinite Dyad) and Its Structure and Role.