:A Study of Plato's Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic
/ Laurence Lampert
Chicago ;London
: University of Chicago Press
, 2010.
vii, 441 p.
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Philosophy in a time of splendor: Socrates in Periclean Athens before the war, c. 433 -- First words -- Socrates' intentions -- The spectacle of Charmides' entrance -- Critias scripts a play but Socrates takes it over -- Stripping Charmides' soul -- What Critias took from Socrates and what that riddler had in mind -- Should each of the beings become clearly apparent just as it is? -- The final definition of saophrosunae, Socrates' definition -- The possibility of Socrates' saophrosunae -- The benefit of Socrates' saophrosunae -- Socrates judges the inquiry -- Last words -- Who might the auditor of Plato's Charmides be? -- Note on the dramatic date of Charmides -- The Republic: the birth of Platonism -- Socrates' great politics -- The world to which Socrates goes down -- First words -- The compelled and the voluntary -- Learning from Cephalus -- Polemarchus and Socratic justice -- Gentling Thrasymachus -- The state of the young in Athens -- Socrates' new beginning -- New gods -- New philosophers -- New justice in a new soul -- Compulsion and another beginning -- The center of the Republic: the philosopher ruler -- Glaucon, ally of the philosopher's rule -- Platonism: philosophy's political defense and introduction to philosophy -- Public speakers for philosophy -- Images of the greatest study: sun, line, cave -- The last act of the returned Odysseus -- Love and reverence for Homer -- Homer's deed -- Homer's children -- Rewards and prizes for Socrates' children -- Replacing Homer's Hades -- Last words -- Note on the dramatic date of the Republic.