A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 4: Plato, the Man and His Dialogues: Earlier Period

A HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY. Vol.4......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
I INTRODUCTION......Page 20
a) Sources......Page 27
b) Birth and family connexions......Page 29
c) Early years......Page 31
d) Sicily and the Academy......Page 36
2) Philosophical influences......Page 51
1) The canon......Page 58
2) Chronology......Page 60
a) Literary criticism......Page 61
b) Philosophical considerations......Page 64
c) Stylometric and linguistic tests......Page 67
d) External evidence and cross-references 52 Appendix: Did Plato write any dialogues before the death of Socrates......Page 73
3) Philosophical status: play and earnest......Page 75
Introductory......Page 86
1) The Apology......Page 89
Summary......Page 99
Comment......Page 106
2) The Crito......Page 112
The dialogue......Page 113
Comment......Page 116
3) The Euthyphro......Page 120
The dialogue......Page 122
Comment......Page 126
4) The Laches......Page 143
The dialogue......Page 145
Comment......Page 149
5) The Lysis......Page 153
The dialogue......Page 157
Comment......Page 162
6) The Charmides......Page 174
The dialogue......Page 177
Comment......Page 182
7) The Hippias Major......Page 194
The dialogue......Page 197
Comment......Page 202
8) The Hippias Minor......Page 210
The dialogue......Page 211
Comment......Page 214
9) The Ion......Page 218
The dialogue......Page 220
Comment......Page 223
Socratic dialogues: summing-up......Page 231
1) The Protagoras......Page 232
The dialogue......Page 235
Comment......Page 240
2) The Meno......Page 255
The dialogue......Page 256
Comment......Page 260
3) The Euthydemus......Page 285
The dialogue......Page 287
Comment......Page 293
4) The Gorgias......Page 303
The dialogue......Page 305
Comment......Page 313
5) The Menexenus......Page 331
Conversational frame (summary and comment)......Page 332
The speech (summary and comment)......Page 334
Introductory......Page 343
1) The Phaedo......Page 344
The dialogue......Page 345
Comment......Page 357
2) The Symposium......Page 384
The dialogue......Page 387
Comment......Page 399
3) The Phaedrus......Page 415
The dialogue......Page 417
Comment......Page 431
Introductory......Page 453
1) The main problem approached and stated (bks 1-2, 367c)......Page 458
2) The search for justice begins: origin and elements of social order (2.368 c-374e)......Page 463
a) Selection (374e-376c)......Page 468
b) Education of the young......Page 469
i) cultural education (2.376e-3.403c): (a) stories (= poetry) (377a-398b) (subject-matter and form); (b) music (398C-400C)......Page 470
ii) physical education, with appendix on doctors and lawyers (403c-410b)......Page 473
Problems......Page 474
4) Guardians and auxiliaries: principles of government (3.412b-4.427c)......Page 480
5) Discovery of justice: structure of individual character (4.427d-445b)......Page 490
6) Women and children in the Platonic state (with appendix on the conduct of warfare) (4.445b-5.471 c)......Page 498
7) Is the Platonic city intended as a practical possibility? (5.471c-473b)......Page 502
8) Knowledge, belief and the two orders of reality: why philosophers must rule (5.473c-6.487a)......Page 506
9) The philosopher and society (6.487b-502c)......Page 517
10) The Form of the Good (6.502c-7.519b) 503 (11) Higher education of the Guardians (7.521 c-541b)......Page 540
12) The decline of the state: imperfect types of society and individual (8.543a-576b)......Page 546
13) Which is happier, the just or unjust man? (576b-592b)......Page 556
a) Argument from degrees of reality......Page 564
c) Conclusion: poetry to be given every chance......Page 572
a) The soul is immortal......Page 573
b) The soul not composite......Page 575
c) Everyone gets his deserts in life or after death: the pilgrimage of souls......Page 576
Conclusion......Page 579
Bibliography......Page 581
I Index of passages quoted or referred to......Page 602
II General index......Page 612
III Index of Greek words occurring in notes......Page 622