Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
THE ION......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Art Implies Knowledge of Who Speaks Well and Badly about the Same Subjects: Ion Does Not Possess an Art......Page 19
Poetry and Divine Possession: Rhapsodes as Messengers of Messengers......Page 20
Arts Defined by Their Objects: Ion Does Not Possess an Art......Page 21
Translation......Page 24
THE HIPPIAS MINOR......Page 38
Introduction......Page 40
Interlude: Dialectic and Literature......Page 42
Only the Good Man Errs Voluntarily......Page 43
Translation......Page 46
THE LACHES......Page 62
Introduction......Page 64
Fighting in Armor and Care of the Soul......Page 66
What Is Courage?......Page 68
Laches’ First Definition: Courage Is Standing to Your Post......Page 70
Nicias’s Definition: Courage Is a Kind of Wisdom or Knowledge of What to Fear and What to Be Confident About......Page 71
Courage and Fearlessness......Page 72
Conclusion......Page 73
Translation......Page 76
THE PROTAGORAS......Page 102
Narrative Introduction......Page 104
Sophistry and the Soul......Page 106
A Foregathering of Sophists......Page 108
Can Virtue Be Taught?......Page 110
The Speech of Protagoras......Page 112
The Unity of Virtue......Page 118
The Unity of Justice and Holiness......Page 121
The Unity of Temperance and Wisdom......Page 126
The Unity of Justice and Temperance......Page 127
Interlude: Questions and Speeches......Page 128
Protagoras Questions Socrates......Page 130
The Speech of Socrates......Page 132
The Unity of Virtue Revisited......Page 133
The Unity of Wisdom and Courage......Page 134
“Conceptual Analysis”......Page 137
That Virtue Is Knowledge......Page 139
The Hedonic Equation......Page 141
Living Well......Page 143
Ancient Hedonism......Page 145
Utilitarianism......Page 148
The Authority of Knowledge......Page 151
Reply to the Many......Page 153
The Hedonistic Calculus......Page 156
The Nautical Almanac......Page 157
The Art of Measurement......Page 159
The Art Analogy......Page 161
The “Naturalistic Fallacy”......Page 164
Psychiatric Hedonism: Freud......Page 168
Hippias and Prodicus Agree......Page 173
Socratic Intellectualism......Page 174
The Unity of Courage and Wisdom......Page 176
“Plato’s Moral Theory”......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 181
Translation......Page 184
INDEX......Page 240