358 Pages
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Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This is a philosophical study of Plato’s Socrates—the man and his talks, his philosophical method, his questions, his arguments, and his beliefs about what is good and right.
Part One THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CITIZEN I Introduction to Plato’s Socrates II Socrates and the Laws of Athens 1 Socrates’ arguments in the Crito that he ought not to escape from jail 2 Socrates’ views in the Apology about the citizen, his city, and its laws 3 Is there any inconsistency between the Apology and the Crito? Part Two SOCRATIC METHOD III Socratic Questions and Assumptions 1 A sample of Socrates’ questions 2 Questions about Socratic questions 3 The pragmatics of Socrates’ questionings 4 The syntactics of Socrates’ questions 5 The semantics of Socrates’ questions IV Socratic Definitions 1 A list of all the definitions in the Socratic Dialogues 2 The syntax and forms of Socratic definitions 3 The semantics of Socratic definitions 4 The pragmatics of Socratic definitions 5 Criteria for adequate Socratic definitions V Socratic Arguments 1 Variety of arguments 2 Method of analyzing arguments 3 Inductive analogies: from the arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 4 Inductive generalizations: from the arts-crafts-sciences to ethics 5 Deductive arguments: two indirect arguments from the Lysis 6 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the Lysis 7 Deductive arguments: a direct argument from the Protagoras Part Three SOCRATIC ETHICS VI Virtue and Knowledge I: The Socratic Paradoxes 1 The distinction between the prudential and the moral paradox 2 The prudential paradox 3 The moral paradox VII Virtue and Knowledge II: An Argument against Explanations of Weakness 1 The context and the strategy 2 The argument 3 Application of the argument to other cases 4 The strength model 5 Weakness and compulsion VIII Power, Virtue, Pleasure, and Happiness in the Gorgias 1 The issues of vittue and happiness 2 Socrates’ arguments that the unjust man is unhappy 3 Goods and evils and happiness and unhappiness: Socrates and Polus 4 Callicles’ view of virtue, pleasure, and happiness 5 Socrates’ attack on Callicles’ view: the arguments against justice by nature, and against hedonism 6 Virtue as health of the soul and justice as medicine
Biography
Gerasimos Xenophon Santas
