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TABLE OF CONTENTS Interpretation I. Introduction 2 II. Interpreting Plato 4 III. The Political Culture of Plato's Early Dialogues 9 IV. Dialogue 19 V. Character and History 25 VI. The Mouthpiece Principle 31 VII. Forms of Evidence 41 Desire I. Socrates as an Erotic Figure 51 II. The Subjectivist Conception of Desire 57 III. Instrumental and Terminal Desire 70 IV. Rational and Irrational Desires 84 V. Desire in the Critiqe of Akrasia 87 VI.i Interpreting Lysis 102 VI.ii The Deficiency Conception of Desire 104 VI.iii Inauthentic Friendship 116 VI.iv The Three-Dimensional Conception of Desire 124 VII. Anti-Philosophical Desires 130 Knowledge I. Excellence as Wisdom 150 II. The Epistemic Unity of Excellence 153 III. Dunamis and Technê 173 IV. Goodness and Form 191 V. The Epistemological Priority of Definitional Knowledge 211 VI. Ordinary Ethical Knowledge 226 Method I. The Socratic Fallacy 251 II. Socrates' Pursuit of Definitions 253 III.i Hupothesis 270 III.ii Two Postulates 278 III.iii The Geometrical Illustration 281 III.iv Geometrical Analysis 290 III.v The Method of Reasoning from a Postulate 296 IV. Elenchus and Hupothesis 303 V. Knowledge and Aitia 309 VI.i F-conditions 316 VI.ii Cognitive Security 326 Aporia I. Forms of Aporia 335 II. Dramatic Aporia 343 III.i The Example of Charmides 357 III.ii Charmides as Autobiography 359 III.iii The Politics of Sophrosunê 363 III.iv Critias' Philotimia 370 III.v Self-Knowledge and the Knowledge of Knowledge 384 III.vi Knowledge of Knowledge and Knowledge of the Good 399 IV. Philosophy and the Polis 400 Appendices I. List of Commonly Used Greek Words 410 II. The Irony of Socrates 367 Bibliography 445
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Plato.
Philosophy, Ancient.