Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition

Contents

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
PART ONE: SOCRATES
1. The Paradox of Socrates
2. Platis’s Socrates\' Accusers
3. Brickhouse and Smith’s Socrates on Trial
4. Socrates on Political Obedience and Disobedience
5. Socrates on Acrasia
6. Was Polus Refuted?
PART TWO: PLATO
A. ETHICS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
7. The Theory of Social Justice in the Polis in Plato’s Republic
8. The Rights of Persons in Plato’s Conception of the Foundations of Justice
9. The Virtuous and the Happy: Irwin’s Plato\'s Moral Theory
10. Was Plato a Feminist?
B. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY
11. Anamnesis in the Meno
12a. The Third Man Argument in the Parmenides
12b. Addendum to the Third Man Argument in the Parmenides
12c. Addenda to the Third Man Argument: A Reply to Professor Sellars
12d. Postscript to the Third Man: A Reply to Mr. Geach
13. On a Proposed Redefinition of “Self-Predication” in Plato
C. SCIENCE
14. The Role of Observation in Plato’s Conception of Astronomy
15. Disorderly Motion in Plato’s Timaeus
16. Creation in the Timaeus: Is It a Fiction?
PART THREE: AFTER PLATO
17. A Note on the Unmoved Mover
18. Minimal Parts in Epicurean Atomism
19. Zeno of Sidon as a Critic of Euclid
BIBLIOGRAPHY: THE WORKS OF GREGORY VLASTOS
INDEX LOCORUM
GENERAL INDEX