Plato and the Body: Reconsidering Socratic Asceticism

Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Interpreting Asceticism in Plato
	1.1 Loving Wisdom and Living in a Body
	1.2 Two Interpretations of Socratic Asceticism
	1.3 A Brief Look at Some Consequences of Misinterpreting Socratic Asceticism
	1.4 Strange Claims and the Analogy Strategy
	1.5 Pedagogical Irony
	1.6 Plan for the Chapters
Chapter 2. Moderation and Training for Death in the Phaedo
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Resolving Two Problems with Embodied Inquiry
	2.3 Moderation and the Separate Soul
	2.4 How Bacchants Train for Death
	2.5 Becoming Like God in a Life Raft
Chapter 3. Beauty, Education, and Erotic Ascent in the Symposium and Phaedrus
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 The Erotic Philosopher
		3.2.1 Socrates’s Abstinence with Phaedrus
		3.2.2 Socrates’s Abstinence with Alcibiades
		3.2.3 A Philosopher Married with Children
	3.3 Erôs the Educational
		3.3.1 Two Versions of Erôs
		3.3.2 Desire, Recollection, and Confusion about the Forms
		3.3.3 The Combination of Physical and Psychic Beauty
	3.4 Nectar and Ambrosia for Plato’s Philosophers
		3.4.1 Hiccups and the Sneeze Treatment
		3.4.2 Nectar and Ambrosia for the Divine Horses
		3.4.3 Loving Boys with the Help of Philosophy
	3.5 The Unlucky Erotic Philosopher
Chapter 4. Health, Justice, and Peace in the Republic and Gorgias
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Justice as Individual Harmony
		4.2.1 Care of the Soul in the Gorgias
		4.4.2 Care of the Soul in the Republic
	4.3 The Peculiar Nature of Leaders in Plato’s Republic
		4.3.1 Rare Combinations
		4.3.2 Misunderstandings and Mistaken Identities
		4.3.3 Loving the Good and Taking Refuge from Politics?
		4.3.4 Loving the Good and Leading Communities
	4.4 Justice as Political Harmony
		4.4.1 Plato’s Emphasis on the Dangers of Poverty
		4.4.2 Socrates’s First City
	4.5 Know Justice, Know Peace
Chapter 5. Interpretative Possibilities for the Late Dialogues
	5.1 Common Themes
	5.2 Positive Attention to the Physical
	5.3 Moderation and Measure
	5.4 Construing the Political
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index