How philosophy became socratic : a study of Plato's Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic /
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Table of Contents:
- Philosophy in a time of splendor: Socrates in Periclean Athens before the war, c. 433
- Protagoras : Socrates and the Greek enlightenment
- First words
- The frame conversation
- Socrates with a young Athenian
- Socrates in hades
- Protagoras introduces himself
- Socrates' challenge and invitation : can the political art be taught?
- Protagoras's display speech : why the political art is teachable
- Socrates' display speech, part I : the wise must teach that virtue is unitary
- Socrates stages a crisis
- Socrates' display sppech, part II : a wiser stance toward the wise Alcibiades presides
- Socrates' display speech, part III : a wiser stance toward the many
- The final tribunal ; courage and wisdom
- Socrates the victor
- Last words
- Socrates' politics for philosophy in 433
- Note on the dramatic date of Protagoras and Alcibiades I
- Philosophy in a time of crisis : Socrates' return to war-ravaged, plague-ravaged Athens, late spring 429
- Charmides : Socrates' philosophy and its transmission
- First words
- Socrates' intentions
- The spectacle of Charmides' entrance
- Critias scripts a play but Socrates takes it over
- Stripping Charmides' soul
- What Critias took from Socrates and what that riddler had in mind
- Should each of the beings become clearly apparent just as it is?
- The final definition of sôphrosunê, Socrates' definition
- The possibility of Socrates' sôphrosunê
- The benefit of Socrates' sôphrosunê
- Socrates judges the inquiry
- Last words
- Who might the auditor of Plato's Charmides be?
- Note on the dramatic date of Charmides
- The Republic: the birth of Platonism
- Socrates' great politics
- The world to which Socrates goes down
- First words
- The compelled and the voluntary
- Learning from Cephalus
- Polemarchus and Socratic justice
- Gentling Thrasymachus
- The state of the young in Athens
- Socrates' new beginning
- New gods
- New philosophers
- New justice in a new soul
- Compulsion and another beginning
- The center of the Republic: the philosopher ruler
- Glaucon, ally of the philosopher's rule
- Platonism: philosophy's political defense and introduction to philosophy
- Public speakers for philosophy
- Images of the greatest study: sun, line, cave
- The last act of the returned Odysseus
- Love and reverence for Homer
- Homer's deed
- Homer's children
- Rewards and prizes for Socrates' children
- Replacing Homer's Hades
- Last words
- Note on the dramatic date of the Republic.
