Ascent to the Good (eBook)

Acknowledgements

Preface: Ascent to the Good

Table of Abbreviations



Introduction: Aristotle and Plato



Chapter 1: Lysis-Euthydemus: Mental Gymnastic and ?¿¿¿ in Symposium's Wake

§1. The Good and the Beautiful in Plato's Symposium

§2. Systematic Socratism

§3. Plato's Deliberate Use of Fallacy in Lysis-Euthydemus

§4. The Play of Character and the Argument of the Action



Chapter 2: Laches and Charmides: Fighting for Athens

§5. Between Euthydemus and Meno

§6. Socratism and the Knowledge of Good and Bad

§7. The Return to Athens in Laches and Charmides



Chapter 3: Plato and Gorgias: The Touchstone of Socrates

§8. From Gorgias to Republic

§9. Plato's Confession

§10. Gorgias and the Shorter Way

§11. Protagoras Revisited

§12. Gorgias and the Longer Way



Chapter 4. Theages and Meno: Socratic Paradoxes

§13. Divine Inspiration and its Discontents

§14. "Meno the Thessalian" and the Socratic Paradox Revisited

§15. Hypotheses and Images in Meno: Introducing the Divided Line



Chapter 5. Cleitophon and Republic

§16. Looking Forward: Answering Cleitophon's Question (408e1-2)

§17. Looking Back: Socrates as Obstacle to Socratism (410e7-8)