
Socrates
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Content
- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Socrates' Times and Trial
- Socrates the Man: His Life and Times
- The Intellectual Revolution of the Fifth Century
- Socrates' Trial
- Why was Socrates Tried?
- Was Socrates Guilty?
- The Death Penalty
- The Trial: Conclusion
- Socrates the Man: Conclusion
- 2: Socratic Method
- The "Socratic Problem"
- The Nature of Socrates' Philosophy
- Socratic vs. Platonic Philosophy
- Socratic Dialogues
- The Socratic Elenchus
- The Apology and the Elenctic Dialogues
- Elenchus in the Apology
- Why Pursue Philosophy?
- The Logic of the Elenchus
- Elenchus in the Sophist
- The Structure of the Elenctic Dialogue: The Charmides
- Two Questions about the Elenchus
- Elenchus in the Meno
- The Doctrine of Recollection
- The Examination of the Slave
- The Apology vs. the Meno
- Two Faces of Socrates in the Elenctic Dialogues
- Recollection and the Elenctic Dialogues
- 3: Knowledge and Ignorance
- Socrates' Profession of Ignorance
- The Nature of Knowledge
- Definition
- The "Priority of Definition" Principle
- Belief and Perplexity
- Socrates as Midwife
- The "Barren" Socrates
- The "Fertile" Socrates
- The Ironic Solution: Thrasymachus
- The Ironic Solution: Alcibiades
- 4: Piety
- The Euthyphro
- The Setting of the Dialogue
- Euthyphro
- Euthyphro's Case and its Justification
- What Socrates wants from Euthyphro: Forms
- Euthyphro's Attempts to Define Piety. Their Refutation
- Euthyphro's Perplexity
- Socrates' Constructive Contribution
- The Conclusion of the Dialogue
- Why do Euthyphro and Socrates Disagree?
- Is Progress toward a Definition of Piety made in the Dialogue?
- The Euthyphro and other Elenctic Dialogues
- 5: Virtue
- The Laches: What is Courage?
- The Laches: Virtue is Knowledge
- The Protagoras: Protagoras' Conception of Virtue
- Socrates' Conception of Virtue: Virtue is Knowledge
- Hedonism and the Strength of Knowledge
- The Argument with the Many: Moral Weakness vs. Cognitive Error
- Hedonism and Moral Weakness
- Virtue as Practical Wisdom
- The Meno
- What is Virtue?
- Definition and Form
- Meno's Perplexity and Paradox
- Recollection
- The Hypothesis that Virtue is Knowledge
- Objection: Where are the Teachers?
- Reply: Virtue as Right Opinion
- Conclusion
- 6: Happiness
- Virtue and Happiness
- The Problem: What Knowledge Produces Happiness?
- The Problem of the Crito
- The Crito as an Atypical Elenctic Dialogue
- Socrates' Response to Crito
- Virtue and Happiness: The Gorgias
- Socrates and Gorgias on Rhetoric
- Socrates and Polus
- The Refutation of Polus
- Critique of the Argument against Polus
- Callicles
- Conventional vs. Natural Justice
- Callicles' Critique of Philosophy
- Socrates' Response to Callicles: Who is the Superior Person?
- Callicles' Hedonism
- Socratic Self-Control
- Rhetoric vs. Philosophy
- Socrates' Defense of the Self-Controlled Life
- The Myth of the After-Life
- Is Callicles Refuted?
- Conclusion: The Crito and Gorgias vs. the Protagoras
- 7: The State
- The Speech of the Laws
- The Crito and Civil Disobedience
- The Social Contract
- Socrates' Response to the Speech of the Laws
- Why Treat Others Justly?
- Socrates as Critic of Athenian Democracy
- Socrates' Political Views
- The Moral Expert
- The Ruling Art in Republic I
- Thrasymachus
- Socrates' Defense of the Just Ruler
- Critique of Socrates' Arguments
- Conclusion
- 8: From Socrates to Plato
- The Apology vs. the Republic
- Method
- Metaphysics: the Theory of "Separate" Forms
- Metaphysics: Being and Becoming
- Metaphysics: The Form of the Good
- Epistemology
- Psychology
- Moral Theory
- Political Theory
- Conclusion
- 9: Socrates' Legacy
- Xenophon's Socrates
- The Reception of Socrates in the Ancient World
- The Christian Reception of Socrates
- Socrates from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- The Nineteenth Century
- Hegel
- Kierkegaard: Socrates as an Individual
- Nietzsche
- The Twentieth Century
- Karl Popper's Socrates
- I. F. Stone's Socrates
- Notes
- Preface
- 1 Socrates' Times and Trial
- 2 Socratic Method
- 3 Knowledge and Ignorance
- 4 Piety
- 5 Virtue
- 6 Happiness
- 7 The State
- 8 From Socrates to Plato
- 9 Socrates' Legacy
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources
- Modern Sources
- Recommended Reading
- General historical background
- On Socrates' Athens
- On Athenian law
- On Socratic piety
- On definition and Forms
- On reverence
- On the Gorgias
- On Socratic perplexity
- On ancient philosophy as a way of life
- On Socratic moral psychology
- On the Republic
- On the death of Socrates, with special emphasis on its treatment through history
- Index
- EULA
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