Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and indexes.
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Introduction -- Plato's aporetic style -- Ethical Protagoreanism -- Callicles' hedonism -- Callicles refuted -- Death is one of two things -- The intrinsic value of sense pleasure and pain -- The righteous are happy -- Does Socrates consistently hold the sufficiency thesis? -- How Socrates can make both pleasure and virtue the chief good.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's "Socratic" dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works. In spite of this intellectual energy, no consensus has emerged on the question of whether Socrates was a hedonist - whether he believed pleasure to be the good. In this study, George Rudebusch addresses this question and the textual puzzle from which it has arisen." "Tackling some of the most fundamental debates over Socratic ethics in Plato's earlier dialogues, Socrates, Pleasure, and Value will generate renewed discussion among specialists and provide reading for courses in ancient philosophy as well as ethical theory."--Jacket.