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• ISBN 10: 1498574629
• ISBN 13: 9781498574624
• Author: William H. F. Altman

At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit of others and at the expense of her own personal happiness. This book shows how Plato has prepared us, his students, to recognize that the sun-like Idea of the Good is an infinitely greater object of serious philosophical concern than what is merely good for me, and thus why neither Plato nor his Socrates are eudaemonists, as Aristotle unquestionably was. With the transcendent Idea of Beauty having been made manifest through Socrates and Diotima, the dialogues between Symposium and Republic—Lysis, Euthydemus, Laches, Charmides, Gorgias, Theages, Meno, and Cleitophon

Table of contents:

1 Lysis-Euthydemus: Mental Gymnastics and ἔρως after Symposium

§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

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

3 Plato and Gorgias: Socrates’ Touchstone

§8. From Gorgias to Republic

§9. Plato’s Confession

§10. Gorgias and the Shorter Way

§11. Protagoras Revisited

§12. Gorgias and the Longer Way

4 Theages and Meno: Socratic Paradoxes

§13. Divine Dispensation and its Discontents

§14. “Meno the Thessalian” and the Socratic Paradox Revisited

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

5 Before and After Cleitophon

§16. Looking Forward: Answering Cleitophon’s Question (408e1–2)

§17. Looking Backward: Socrates as an Obstacle to Socratism (410e7–8)

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